Arcpy

[Mick]

Good day everybody.

I am currently working with a file geodatabase. I created an additional field in a feature class table and want to add all the information from another field located in the same feature class table. I guess I can do it with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor but not sure how to copy from one field to another. Could you please give any advice?

[Anonymous User · Accepted solution]

Hi Mick,

This is pretty straight forward.  Just include the two fields and set the source to the target:

with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fc, [sourceFld, targetFld]) as uCur:
    for row in Ucur:
        row[1] = row[0]
        uCur.updateRow(row)

[BlakeTerhune]

You could also use Calculate Field to do something simple like this. You can even script creating the new field if you need!