topic Re: Creating cursor inside or outside loop in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713594#M55349 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Leon...</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting">/blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting</A> should help</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:10:59 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2019-10-15T00:10:59Z Creating cursor inside or outside loop https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713592#M55347 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>&nbsp;Here is my issue</P><P></P><P>If I create an insert cursor outside a for loop all inserted rows ends up with the same shape.</P><P>If I create the cursor inside the for loop i end up with the result that i expected</P><P></P><P>Sorry for code in image files, however this community editor seems to kill my indends</P><P></P><P>The first example the cursor is created outside the loop</P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/461790_badresult.png" />&nbsp;The result:</P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji jive-image image-3 j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/461795_badoutput.png" /></P><P></P><P></P><P>If i move the creation of the cursor inside the loop&nbsp;</P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji jive-image image-2 j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/461791_greatresult.png" /></P><P></P><P>The result:</P><P><IMG alt="" class="jive-emoji jive-image image-4 j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/461796_greatoutput.png" /></P><P></P><P>Why am I getting diffrent results?&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:45:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713592#M55347 leonoestergaard 2019-10-14T10:45:24Z Re: Creating cursor inside or outside loop https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713593#M55348 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How many items are in nogleboksDict?&nbsp; And, how are you selecting the records in your screenshots?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:17:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713593#M55348 JoshuaBixby 2019-10-14T17:17:10Z Re: Creating cursor inside or outside loop https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713594#M55349 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Leon...</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting">/blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting</A> should help</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:10:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713594#M55349 DanPatterson_Retired 2019-10-15T00:10:59Z Re: Creating cursor inside or outside loop https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713595#M55350 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/migrated-users/3420">Joshua Bixby</A>‌&nbsp; 178 items in the dictionary. Im using "select by attributes" and querying with at like on a text field</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:43:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/creating-cursor-inside-or-outside-loop/m-p/713595#M55350 leonoestergaard 2019-10-15T05:43:12Z