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Your 5 most common ArcPy commands that you put into the Python Window?

Ryan_Galbraith — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:13:52 GMT

It seems that arcpy is becoming more and more popular for a quick geoprocessing environment to get work done.

I am just surveying the GIS community to see what are your top 5 commands that you put into the Python window to geoprocess or set overwrite commands etc.

>>> ....5,4,3,2,1 and what you try and accomplish in this command.

Re: Your 5 most common ArcPy commands that you put into the Python Window?

Anonymous User — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:56:06 GMT

Original User: mzcoyle

I mostly use the python window to test code before putting it in a tool or stand alone script. I find I never only do things once, making one off actions in the python window a waste of time. If you want to know the mostly common arcpy functions in any python code I write; I would have to say all the cursors, describe, FCtoFC and various mapping module calls (MapDocument, ListLayers etc). In my library, it is a rare script indeed that doesn't use one (or even most) of those functions.

Re: Your 5 most common ArcPy commands that you put into the Python Window?

Ryan_Galbraith — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:51:29 GMT

I was looking for more stuff like...

>>>arcpy.env.workspace = �??Current�?�
>>>arcpy.env.overwirteoutput = True
>>>arcpy.ListPrinterNames()
>>>import os

or the famously
>>>import this

any others that you commonly use?

Re: Your 5 most common ArcPy commands that you put into the Python Window?

Anonymous User — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:56:51 GMT

Original User: ldanzinger

If I'm writing in the Python window (and not PythonWin), I'm typically doing something with the mapping module to do something to all the layers in a map, so some common ones I use are:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0]
layers = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd,"",df)
for layer in layers: