Question regarding displaying labels using a loop in python expression in ArcMap 10.6?
Hi,
I am looking for some assistance with regard to creating a label expression using python in ArcMap.
I have a number of point features in a map in ArcMap 10.6 that I would need to label based on information from three fields (Test1, Test2 and Test3) with numeric values. The labels from these 3 fields would have to be stacked. And each of these labels would have to appended with a date text. The format of the label would be something like this;
Some of the records in these fields contain zero values and so it would be required to loop through these fields and skip the zero values. That is not to have them displayed in the label.Currently I have the following scripts to work with;
-script to stack labels -This does not skip through zero values
def FindLabel ([Test1] , [Test2] , [Test3]): return "05/10/2018" + " - " + [Test1] + "\r\n" + "05/10/2018" + " - " + [Test2] + "\r\n" + "05/10/2018" + " - " + [Test3]-script to skip "0" values in the fields and stacks the labels, however does not append text string to each attribute value.
def FindLabel ( [Test1] , [Test2] , [Test3] ): fields = ([Test1] , [Test2] , [Test3]) label = "" for field in fields: if field == "0": continue else: label = label + field + "\n" return labelIs there a way achieve this using a python label expression in ArcMap 10.6. Any help with this would be appreciated.
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for getting back to me over this. Just wanted to provide a clarification regarding the previous post. I was able to use the second snippet to stack the labels and avoid zero values. However the date string is only appended to the first attribute field value in the iteration. Here is a screenshot of the results :
I tested this in ArcMap 10.6 as well as ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2 and received the same result. The text string is not appended to every attribute value. Only the first value is appended through the iteration.
However I was able to find a script that does provide required results;
def FindLabel ( [Test1],[Test2],[Test3] ): values = [Test1],[Test2],[Test3] date = "05/10/2018" labellist = ["{0} - {1}".format(date, value) for value in values if value != '0'] label = "\n".join(labellist)
return labelUsing a for loop in a list comprehension does append the text string to each attribute value in the iteration. Here is a screenshot of the results.
