topic Re: Field Indexing, arcpy.SearchCursor in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/field-indexing-arcpy-searchcursor/m-p/668535#M51882 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do not believe it is possibly with the old style search cursor. It is def possible in 10.1 with the data access module cursors. These also perform a lot faster.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.da.SearchCursor(FC,fields) </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The fields value is a python lists of fields.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the help for it</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SearchCursor/018w00000011000000">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SearchCursor/018w00000011000000</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At 10 and before you have to use row.getValue(field)</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//018v00000050000000">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//018v00000050000000</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Dave</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:00:56 GMT DaveBarrett 2013-08-28T20:00:56Z Field Indexing, arcpy.SearchCursor https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/field-indexing-arcpy-searchcursor/m-p/668534#M51881 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Does the arcpy.SearchCursor function support field indexing? In the sample script below, can I sent my cursor to loop through the values in the first field by setting an index to search the first field?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">for x in arcpy.SearchCursor(filepath): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print x[0]</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:40:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/field-indexing-arcpy-searchcursor/m-p/668534#M51881 MikeMacRae 2013-08-28T19:40:42Z Re: Field Indexing, arcpy.SearchCursor https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/field-indexing-arcpy-searchcursor/m-p/668535#M51882 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do not believe it is possibly with the old style search cursor. It is def possible in 10.1 with the data access module cursors. These also perform a lot faster.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.da.SearchCursor(FC,fields) </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The fields value is a python lists of fields.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the help for it</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SearchCursor/018w00000011000000">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SearchCursor/018w00000011000000</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At 10 and before you have to use row.getValue(field)</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//018v00000050000000">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//018v00000050000000</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Dave</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:00:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/field-indexing-arcpy-searchcursor/m-p/668535#M51882 DaveBarrett 2013-08-28T20:00:56Z