https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307737#M68147 <P>Thank you, Johannes!!!</P><P>This worked perfectly.</P><P>You have a great day as well.</P><P>Jeff</P> Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:09:38 GMT JD1016 2023-07-12T19:09:38Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307702#M68145 <P>Hello,</P><P>I preface by saying I know next to nothing about Python scripting.&nbsp; There...got that out of the way.</P><P>We would like to populate a "text" field called <STRONG>GISIDNUMBER</STRONG> with the following---<STRONG>CAP76</STRONG>.&nbsp; The number will vary and comes from the OBJECTID field.</P><P>In VB the script it would be written as <STRONG>"CAP" + [OBJIDTXT]</STRONG>.&nbsp; Whereby we added a new field converting the OBJECTID to text and called it OBJIDFIELD.</P><P>Could someone supply a Python script that would do the process all in one without creating a new field?</P><P>Thank you.</P><P>Jeff</P> Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:47:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307702#M68145 JD1016 2023-07-12T17:47:51Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307727#M68146 <P>One of these</P><LI-CODE lang="python">"CAP" + str(!OBJECTID!) "CAP{}".format(!OBJECTID!) f"CAP{!OBJECTID!}" # only ArcGIS Pro</LI-CODE> Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:54:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307727#M68146 JohannesLindner 2023-07-12T18:54:09Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307737#M68147 <P>Thank you, Johannes!!!</P><P>This worked perfectly.</P><P>You have a great day as well.</P><P>Jeff</P> Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:09:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/vb-to-python-conversion-question/m-p/1307737#M68147 JD1016 2023-07-12T19:09:38Z