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SearchCursor won't reset?

RobertMartin2 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:25:58 GMT

I am trying to get my feet wet with Python but something has me stumped. I made a test feature class with just one object and used that to instantiate a cursor. I looped over the FC and told it to print some text each time, which it did. I then reset the cursor and tried doing the same thing again but nothing prints. This is how my code looks:

>>> rows = arcpy.SearchCursor("pyLateralLine") >>> for row in rows: ...     print "something"

Can anyone think of what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks!

Re: SearchCursor won't reset?

JasonScheirer — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:37:37 GMT

Calling .reset() is sketchy as best (it doesn't work on certain storage formats), you'll want to create a new SearchCursor object pointing to the same data.

Re: SearchCursor won't reset?

BruceBacia — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:49:53 GMT

rows = arcpy.SearchCursor("pyLateralLine")
for row in rows:
    print "something"
del row
del rows

Re: SearchCursor won't reset?

BruceBacia — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:26:15 GMT

maybe you could try the del row,rows ?

Re: SearchCursor won't reset?

PriscillaCole — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:56:45 GMT

Can you elaborate? Which storage formats don't work with .reset()?