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ArcPy Feature Class to Feature Class - Name contains invalid charcters

Business_IntelligenceSoftware — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:42:00 GMT

Hi,

I have a Feature Class to Feature Class script that is supposed to take a Feature Class (FC) of locations and create a separate FC for each location. However, it keeps giving me the following two errors.

ERROR 000210: Cannot create output E:\arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages.gdb\NorthEdmond  
ERROR 000354: The name contains invalid characters
Failed to execute (FeatureClassToFeatureClass)‍‍‍

Here is the FC to FC script:

inFeatures = "PythonTest_Geocoded"
fields = ['ObjectID', 'Shape','USER_Center']

with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(inFeatures, fields) as cursor:
    for row in cursor:
        outLocation = r"E:\arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages.gdb"
        outFeatureClass = "{0}".format(row[2])
        delimitedField = arcpy.AddFieldDelimiters(env.workspace, "USER_Center")
        expression = delimitedField + " = '{0}'".format(row[2])
        print(expression)
         
        ## Execute FeatureClassToFeatureClass
        arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion(inFeatures, outLocation, outFeatureClass, expression)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The output FCs are supposed to be named after their corresponding locations ('USER_Center"). This field contains no invalid characters, as you can see below (I was testing this code on a table with only 3 rows).

Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong/missing?

Thanks.

Re: ArcPy Feature Class to Feature Class - Name contains invalid charcters

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 19:31:04 GMT

can you print out the expression.

see that capital U suggests it may be making a Unicode character, and I suspect that your path no longer is in raw format and only contains single backslashes.

Re: ArcPy Feature Class to Feature Class - Name contains invalid charcters

JoshuaBixby — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:55:28 GMT

Whitespace characters are invalid, and I suspect you have one at the end of your text, i.e., the text is 'NorthEdmond ' instead of 'NorthEdmond' . Try changing:

outFeatureClass = "{0}".format(row[2].strip())‍

Re: ArcPy Feature Class to Feature Class - Name contains invalid charcters

Business_IntelligenceSoftware — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:35:18 GMT

That was the answer. Thanks for your help!