Stopiteration error and failure with CalculateField_Management update cursor

kad37_pns — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:33:17 GMT

Hello!

I'm trying to run a field calculation on a set of selected features from my layer. While my custom button may be considered "functioning" when I hard program into the python window on arcmap, I'll get an error on my update cursor saying" stopiteration: iteration not started". Additionally, when I do manage to get my print statement back, the calculation isn't being run, I'm getting statements such as "This is the new acreage: layer name" for however many polygons I've selected.

I know it can be done using calculate geometry, but I'd like to be able to streamline this process as it'll be used when subdivisions are drawn out and save on the amount of button clicks for each individual polygon. I have to calculate the geometry for both fields "calc_acre" (acres) and "shape_leng" (sq ft), but I'm currently trying to get calc_acre working before I move to the next row.

My code:

import arcpy import pythonaddins class CalcGeometry(object): """Implementation for CalcGeometry_addin.button (Button)""" def __init__(self): self.enabled = True self.checked = False def onClick(self): mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument('current') Fields = ["CALC_ACRE", "SHAPE_LENG"] lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd)[0] sample = lyr.getSelectionSet() with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(lyr, Fields) as Calc: for row in Calc: row[0] = arcpy.CalculateField_management(lyr, "CALC_ACRE", "!shape.area@acres!", "PYTHON", "" ) print("this is the new acreage: {}".format(row[0])) Calc.updateRow(row)

Re: Stopiteration error and failure with CalculateField_Management update cursor

DanPatterson — Mon, 24 May 2021 16:53:09 GMT

CalculateField_management is not designed to be used in a cursor. It does the calculations on a featureclass all at once. If you want to use a cursor, then get the geometry and use arcpy methods to calculate the area.

Re: Stopiteration error and failure with CalculateField_Management update cursor

BlakeTerhune — Mon, 24 May 2021 19:09:35 GMT

I would also like to add that you probably want to be using "PYTHON_9.3" as the expression_type parameter for CalculateField.

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