I need to iterate through each of the features of a feature class successively to use each one as the mask to extract from a raster with the ExtractByMask tool. Basically I'm looking for the "Iterate Feature Selection" function from ModelBuilder for Python scripting.
If I understand correctly, using a search cursor will return only the row of values from the attribute table, not the feature shape itself. Would iteratively creating a new shape with "Select_Analysis" be a feasible way to go about this instead? I suppose creating a new shape file for each feature would take quite long. Is there another, more efficient way?
