How to efficiently convert a shapely linestring back into an arcpy polyline?

DuncanHornby — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:45:00 GMT

All,

I'm hoping to tap into the python community for advice on how to efficiently convert a shapely linestring back into an arcpy polyline. I am developing a suite of python tools in the ArcPro 3.1.0 toolbox (atbx).

So I read from a file geodatabase polyline geometries and convert them to a shapely linestring. I do this as shapely exposes a useful method on a polyline that does not exist in the arcpy. A simplified snippet of my reading code (which works fine) is shown below:

from shapely.wkb import loads with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(mylayer, ["SHAPE@WKB"]) as cursor: for row in cursor: geom = row[0] line = loads(bytes(geom)) # Convert arcpy geometry into shapely geometry # Do something with line using shapely

Later on in my code I want to write the processed shapely linestring back into a new Feature Class using an insert cursor.

What I cannot work out, hence me coming to you, is how do I efficiently turn a linestring back into an arcpy polyline geometry so I can write it back to a new file geodatabase feature class? In the help file the arcpy polylines take arrays of points when constructing a polyline. I was expecting to find the reverse of the WKB property on a polyline? It seems to me that arcpy allows you to convert from a polyline into alternative ways of recording geometry (json, wkb, wkt) but does not seem to consume them?

Re: How to efficiently convert a shapely linestring back into an arcpy polyline?

JohannesLindner — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:23:44 GMT

arcpy has FromWKB() and FromWKT().

with arcpy.da.InsertCursor(new_fc, ["SHAPE@"]) as cursor: new_geom = arcpy.FromWKB(line.wkb) cursor.insertRow([new_geom])

Re: How to efficiently convert a shapely linestring back into an arcpy polyline?

DuncanHornby — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:43:43 GMT

Johannes,

Awesome! It never occurred to me that it would be a function of arcpy, I was looking for some sort of read/write property of a geometry. Well you have definitely earned yourself a 🍺

Thank you for your swift reply.

Duncan

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