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RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

NabilaChaudhry — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:21:21 GMT

This is the code I write and it gives me following error.

# reading the csv file containing wildfire data
fires_dataset=pd.read_csv(r'D:/UCALGARY/urbanGIS/lab4/lab4data/fires_data.csv',encoding='mac_roman')

# specify the location you want the store your point features after running the XY to Point tool.
fire_data_output = r'D:/UCALGARY/urban GIS/lab4/lab4ugis/lab4ugis.aprx'

fires_data = arcpy.management.XYTableToPoint(fires_dataset,fire_data_output, 'fire_location_longitude', 'fire_location_latitude')

Error

RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
In  [7]:
Line 9:     fires_data = arcpy.management.XYTableToPoint(fires_dataset,fire_data_output, 'fire_location_longitude', 'fire_location_latitude')

File c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\management.py, in XYTableToPoint:
Line 4151:  raise e

File c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\management.py, in XYTableToPoint:
Line 4148:  retval = convertArcObjectToPythonObject(gp.XYTableToPoint_management(*gp_fixargs((in_table, out_feature_class, x_field, y_field, z_field, coordinate_system), True)))

File c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py, in <lambda>:
Line 511:   return lambda *args: val(*gp_fixargs(args, True))

RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool

Re: RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

Luke_Pinner — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:29:21 GMT

You need to pass a feature class not an ArcGIS Pro aprx file as the output.

Re: RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

mody_buchbinder — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:30:08 GMT

The second parameter should be a new feature class name (something like r'D:\temp\abc.gdb\fc') and not an aprx.

Have fun

Mody

Re: RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

NabilaChaudhry — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:11:03 GMT

Hi, I did try what you said but it is giving me the same error.

Re: RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

DavidPike — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:11:45 GMT

I don't think a pandas dataframe is an allowed input. I would just reference the path to the csv in arcpy.management.XYTableToPoint and do away with any pandas.

Re: RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool (in XYTableToPoint)

LReis — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:58:04 GMT

For anyone else who has run into this error (and this page) and wants to go between a pandas dataframe and feature class, I was able to use arcpy.management.XYTableToPoint for this. The trick is you first need to import the GeoAccessor with the following code (I don't know if the GeoSeriesAccessor is strictly necessary, but I've usually seen them together):

from arcgis.features import GeoAccessor, GeoSeriesAccessor

If you need to do some spatial operations first, you can use pd.DataFrame.spatial.from_xy (Esri example here) and then df.spatial.to_featureclass (with your own dataframe variable as the first part) to move the final dataframe to a database.

I agree with this response that using arcpy.management.XYTableToPoint and pointing to the csv is better in the original situation, but perhaps this information will be useful to others who run into the same error.