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How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

anonymous55 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:44:41 GMT

Hello
I am trying to rename shapefile to current date like this dd_02112022.zip
I am created zip file but I can't find out how to rename shapefile or feature class before zipping all together.

any python code or arcpy to rename and add current date.

Best,

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

DanPatterson — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:05:04 GMT

many ways to generate the date string, here is one. I assume you have the rest in hand

from datetime import datetime as dt n = dt.now() "-".join([f"{i}" for i in [n.year, n.month, n.day]]) '2022-2-11'

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

KimberlyGarbade — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:59:53 GMT

This worked for me using the rename_management function and a shapefile. It took a shapefile name Kim.shp and renamed it to append todays date... the code to create the zip file works to, but it creates a zip file that starts at the base of the path... if that makes sense.

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

anonymous55 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:58:07 GMT

Hello @KimberlyGarbade

I don't way but I run your code on jupyter notebook on Arcpro and works fine when I am trying to run on PyScripter I am getting error

#rename shapefile txtFileNameWithExt = "op.shp" txtFileNameNoExt = f"{os.path.splitext(txtFileNameWithExt)[0]}_{datetime.datetime.now():%Y_%m_%d}" arcpy.env.workspace = my_Path arcpy.Rename_management(txtFileNameWithExt,f"{txtFileNameNoExt}.shp")

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

DanPatterson — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:07:42 GMT

you are missing a matching }

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

KimberlyGarbade — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:12:58 GMT

I wrote mine in Spyder... I don't know much about PyScripter, but maybe it needs a reference to the 'os' or 'datetime' modules

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

anonymous55 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:13:54 GMT

I checked and I don't miss anything
seems "f" doesn't work here

txtFileNameNoExt = f"{os.path.splitext(txtFileNameWithExt)[0]}_{datetime.datetime.now():%Y_%m_%d}"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

also here

arcpy.env.workspace = my_Path
arcpy.Rename_management(txtFileNameWithExt,f"{txtFileNameNoExt}.shp")

Re: How add current date to output when I convert feature class to shapefile?

KimberlyGarbade — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:18:28 GMT

"f" substitution only works in Python 3.6 and above.... might have to use an older substitution method. You could try % formatting... its an older way to do string substitution in Python.