Error saving object from python script using GetParameterAsText

[badrinathkar]

I have made pythan script tool in which the

workspace + "/Data.shp" is sucessfully saving the files as here:

>>> import arcpy
... import os
... import sys
... from arcpy import env
... arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
###########################################
... InFc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
... workspace= arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
... Output_Data_shp = workspace + "/Data.shp"
... Output_Table_dbf = workspace + "/Table.dbf"
... # Process: Table Select
... arcpy.TableSelect_analysis(InFc, Output_Table_dbf, "")
... # Process: Dissolve
... arcpy.Dissolve_management(InFc, Output_Data_shp, "", "", "MULTI_PART", "DISSOLVE_LINES")

But when I allow users to define the path, the tools fails to execute. For this I used following code:

>>> import arcpy
... import os
... import sys
... from arcpy import env
... arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
###########################################
... InFc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
... Output_Data_shp = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
... Output_Table_dbf = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)
... # Process: Table Select
... arcpy.TableSelect_analysis(InFc, Output_Table_dbf, "")
... # Process: Dissolve
... arcpy.Dissolve_management(InFc, Output_Data_shp, "", "", "MULTI_PART", "DISSOLVE_LINES")

For information, I am running the Python script inside a normal toolbox (i.e. not inside a python toolbox). I have defined the data types correctly under the Parameters tab of the script. Although python is quite new to me and I am not trained enough to implement codes into the script to detect errors, I think the GetParametersAsText defines the directory with Single Backslash (/) which hinders the tool to execute.

Any suggestions to solve the issue? Thanks in advance.

[DanPatterson]

for the 2nd parameter (your workspace), do you have it defined as a "folder" ?

and did you try raw encoding

Output_Data_shp =  r"{}\\Data.shp".format(workspace)  # raw encoding 

[badrinathkar]

My apologies. I had done a horrible mistake in posting the 2nd code (actually I posted the same code in both places).  Please consider the following:

workspace=  arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

workspace + "/Data.shp" 

workspace + "/Stat.dbf"  is working fine.

Tool fails to execute when I allow users to save the files using the GetParameterAsText:

Output_Data_shp = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
Output_Table_dbf = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)

I have defined workspace as workspace data type.

[DanPatterson]

workspace .... should be defined as a "folder" in your toolbox.  Double backslashes as in my examples would be preferable (or use the os module as David suggested), you don't want to mix back and fore slashes.

[DavidPike · Accepted solution]

I prefer to let the os module do any path wrangling for me.

import os

Output_Data_shp = os.path.join(workspace, "Data.shp")
Output_Table_dbf = os.path.join(workspace, "Table.dbf")

[badrinathkar]

My apologies. I had done a horrible mistake in posting the 2nd code (actually I posted the same code in both places).  Please consider the following:

workspace=  arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

workspace + "/Data.shp" 

workspace + "/Stat.dbf"  is working fine.

Tool fails to execute when I allow users to save the files using the GetParameterAsText:

Output_Data_shp = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
Output_Table_dbf = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)

[badrinathkar]

My apologies. I had done a horrible mistake in posting the 2nd code (actually I posted the same code in both places).  Please consider the following:

workspace=  arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

workspace + "/Data.shp" 

workspace + "/Stat.dbf"  is working fine.

Tool fails to execute when I allow users to save the files using the GetParameterAsText:

Output_Data_shp = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
Output_Table_dbf = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)

I have defined workspace as workspace data type.

[Luke_Pinner]

It would help if you posted the actual error message. But a wild stab in the dark is that you have an undeclared variable.. You declare the dbf as Output_Table_dbf  and then attempt to use Output_Stat_Table_dbf