nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Arcpy copy feature out of path in a table?

JB1234510

I've a table with paths like:

R:\Daten\geo_daten\GEOLOGIE\bodenuebersicht\daten\arcview\bodeneigenschaften\shape\bodeneigenschaften.shp

and want to copy this Feature somewhere else and delete in the location where it is?

What's wrong?

import arcpy, numpy
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
InPath = r"R:\Karto\Geodaten_Archiv.txt"
OutPath = r"R:\Daten\geo_daten\geodaten_archiv\SIC_2016_04_07"
filename = open(InPath, 'r')
arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad")
for line in arr:
    print line
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line, OutPath)

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

WesMiller

Forgot it was an array, see if this works

import arcpy, numpy ,os   
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True    
InPath = r"F:\Departments\GIS\Wes\PySripts\DanPatterson\Code4GeoNet\CopyTest\Paths.txt"    
OutPath = r"F:\Departments\GIS\Wes\PySripts\DanPatterson\Code4GeoNet\CopyTest\CopyTo"  
filename = open(InPath, 'r')  #Not being used  
arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad")    
for line in arr:    
    print line[0]
    print os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line))
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line[0], os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line[0])))

All comments

WesMiller

When you use print line in 8 what do you get. ON line 9 you are coping whatever is printed on line 8 but you are printing to the same name over and over. I didn't test this but you may need to do something similar to below


import arcpy, numpy ,os 
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True  
InPath = r"R:\Karto\Geodaten_Archiv.txt"  
OutPath = r"R:\Daten\geo_daten\geodaten_archiv\SIC_2016_04_07"  
filename = open(InPath, 'r')  #Not being used
arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad")  
for line in arr:  
    print line  
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line, os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line)))

JB1234510

Thank you for your comment, but your idea leads to this:

(u'R:\\Daten\\geo_daten\\GEOLOGIE\\bodenuebersicht\\daten\\arcview\\bodeneigenschaften\\shape\\bodeneigenschaften.shp',)

Traceback (most recent call last):

    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line, os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line)))
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\lib\ntpath.py", line 198, in basename
    return split(p)[1]
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\lib\ntpath.py", line 170, in split
    d, p = splitdrive(p)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\lib\ntpath.py", line 125, in splitdrive
    if p[1:2] == ':':
IndexError: invalid index

WesMiller

What prints on line 8?

NeilAyres

You originally said this ( see my comments in red😞 "

I've a table with paths like:

R:\Daten\geo_daten\GEOLOGIE\bodenuebersicht\daten\arcview\bodeneigenschaften\shape\bodeneigenschaften.shp

and want to copy this Feature somewhere else and delete in the location where it is?

What's wrong?

import arcpy, numpy
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
InPath = r"R:\Karto\Geodaten_Archiv.txt" # This isn't a path, it is a file
OutPath = r"R:\Daten\geo_daten\geodaten_archiv\SIC_2016_04_07"
filename = open(InPath, 'r') # not using this
arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad") # why are you converting to a numpy array ???
for line in arr:
print line
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line, OutPath) # there is no file specified

Here you point to a shapefile : R:\Daten\geo_daten\GEOLOGIE\bodenuebersicht\daten\arcview\bodeneigenschaften\shape\bodeneigenschaften.shp

Then you read from a text file in your code???

If you just want to copy a bunch of shapefiles from one location to the other, you could do something like this :

import sys, os, arcpy
inPath = "some path here"
outPath = "some other path here"
arcpy.env.workspace = inPath
shpIn = [for f in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() if f.endswith(".shp")]

for shp in shpIn:
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(shp, os.path.join(outPath, shp))

All this, more or less from :

Copy Features—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

WesMiller

Forgot it was an array, see if this works

import arcpy, numpy ,os   
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True    
InPath = r"F:\Departments\GIS\Wes\PySripts\DanPatterson\Code4GeoNet\CopyTest\Paths.txt"    
OutPath = r"F:\Departments\GIS\Wes\PySripts\DanPatterson\Code4GeoNet\CopyTest\CopyTo"  
filename = open(InPath, 'r')  #Not being used  
arr = arcpy.da.TableToNumPyArray(InPath, "Datenpfad")    
for line in arr:    
    print line[0]
    print os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line))
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(line[0], os.path.join(OutPath,os.path.basename(line[0])))

WesMiller

If that works here is the Delete—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop help

JB1234510

line[0] was it, thanks a lot

JB1234510

Would like to mark your answer as the correct one, but there's only helpful and like buttons. Sorry wasn't here for a long time?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP

Johannes,

See if you can still change this from a "discussion" to a "question", then you should be able to check a correct answer. Timothy Hales can probably help if you aren't able to do this.

TimothyHales

I changed it over to a questions (Actions > Convert to Question). I'll add in some documentation to our Community Help on how to do this. Thanks!

RebeccaStrauch__GISP

Thanks Timothy. That would be a good topic to add.

Johannes Bierer ...now you can mark one of the comments as "the answer", and if you haven't already, mark those that helped you as "helpful"

Join the Conversation

Signed in members can post, follow updates, and more. New here? Register a free account.

Quick Links

Community Help
Find useful guides, FAQs, and documents to help you navigate and make the most of Esri Community.