How to do Eliminate Datamanegement for list of layers?

[PhoukhongPhongsa]

How to process with a list of files using [arcpy.ListFeatureClasses] with script below? Any help from you all very appreciate!

try:
  fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("P*","POLYGON")
  fcList.sort()
  print fcList
  fcCount = len(fcList)
  print fcCount
  for fcs in fcList:
      print "Selecting areas < 1ha from file: " + fcs
 eliminate_file = fcs + "_elim"  
 arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(fcs,"NEW_SELECTION", expres)
      arcpy.Eliminate_management(fcs, eliminate_file, "AREA", "", "" )
except:
  print "Could not create feature layers"

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This is from:

# Name: Eliminate_Example2.py
# Description: Eliminate features based on a selection.

# Import system modules
import arcpy

# Set environment settings
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/data/Portland.gdb/Census"

# Set local variables
inFeatures = "blockgrp"
tempLayer = "blocklayer"
expression = '"Area_Sq_Miles" < 0.15'
outFeatureClass = "C:/output/output.gdb/eliminate_output"
exclusionExpression = '"OBJECTID" = 9'

# Execute MakeFeatureLayer
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(inFeatures, tempLayer)

# Execute SelectLayerByAttribute to define features to be eliminated
arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(tempLayer, "NEW_SELECTION", expression)

# Execute Eliminate
arcpy.Eliminate_management(tempLayer, outFeatureClass, "LENGTH",
​                           exclusionExpression)

Message was edited by: Dan Patterson I moved this to geoprocessing and used syntax highlighting >> to format the code

[WesMiller]

Your code has a few errors in it.

I don't see where you set the workspace or the expression. Lines 9 and 10 have indentation errors.

Here is the help for Eliminate

Eliminate—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

[PhoukhongPhongsa]

I have seen the Eliminate Help and copied the ...Example2.py

However, I want to process a list of layers or feature layers and do not knowhow to use Phyton or arcpy correctly.

I try to use this but no success!!!

fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("P*","POLYGON")

for fc in fcList:

    MakeFeatureLayer...

    Select...

    Eliminate...

So, it process only the last layer in the fcList.

Any idea?

Thank you so much!

Phoukhong

[PhoukhongPhongsa]

I would like to Eliminate an area smaller than 15000 sq meters in all layers. Example files attached.

Dropbox - ElimSampleFiles.gdb.zip

Thanks,

Phoukhong

[Pieter_Geertvan_den_Beukel · Accepted solution]

if only the last layer in fcList is processed, you have to check the indention of your code: the Eliminate must be inside the For loop

Not:

for fcs in fcList:  
   print "Selecting areas < 1ha from file: " + fcs  
   eliminate_file = fcs + "_elim"    
arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(fcs,"NEW_SELECTION", expres)  
arcpy.Eliminate_management(fcs, eliminate_file, "AREA", "", "" ) 

But:

for fcs in fcList:  
   print "Selecting areas < 1ha from file: " + fcs  
   eliminate_file = fcs + "_elim"    
   arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(fcs,"NEW_SELECTION", expres)  
   arcpy.Eliminate_management(fcs, eliminate_file, "AREA", "", "" )