Please see my post preceding your last post.... sorry I went on an errand and didn't refresh my screen.In short, I provided a single line to change for you to test - see if that works for you, then I can explain further if you still need more.What I was saying is that if you look at the documentation for the Copy Features tool, it is expecting a Feature Layer and this is referenced simply by name (not with the .lyr extension). It is essentially created 'in memory' - that's why the documentation says such Feature Layers 'disappear' when you exit your ArcGIS session (unless you save outputs to a map as it is auto-added to the TOC, for example)More to the point, look at this, particularly the output is a Feature Layer, not to be confused with a Layer File:Make Feature Layerhttp://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000006p000000So the output of MFL is to be passed to Copy Features and the output of the 1st tool must match the expected input of the 2nd tool, right?There are more details, but let's mull that over and stick to what you specifically need for your problem. Try the modification I gave you - you only need to change a single line to see if it works. Hope that helps.I don't think your 1st error code identified the problem, so here's your modified code, with which you may get a 'new' error, but that's part of troubleshooting! (see below):
import arcpy, os
workspace = "C:/Temp"
print "Workspace set to:", workspace
arcpy.AddMessage("Workspace set to: "+workspace)
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput=True
def whereClause(table, field, values):
"""Takes a semicolon-delimited list of values and constructs a SQL WHERE
clause to select those values within a given field and table."""
# Add field delimiters
fieldDelimited = arcpy.AddFieldDelimiters(arcpy.Describe(table).path, field)
# Split multivalue at semicolons and strip quotes
valueList = [value[1:-1]
if (value.startswith("'") and value.endswith("'"))
else value for value in values.split(';')]
# Determine field type
fieldType = arcpy.ListFields(table, field)[0].type
# Add single-quotes for string field values
if str(fieldType) == 'String':
valueList = ["'%s'" % value for value in valueList]
# Format WHERE clause in the form of an IN statement
whereClause = "%s IN (%s)"%(fieldDelimited, ', '.join(valueList))
return whereClause
def outName(input,post="Out",fileExtension="shp"):
"""Returns output name."""
outName=os.path.basename(input).split(".")[0]+post+"."+fileExtension
return outName
#Make Feature Layer from County Boundary Feature Class
InputFC = "C:\Project\ToolData\CountyBoundary.shp"
# Try running again - I commented out and replaced your suspect line of code:
#OutputFL = outName(InputFC,"_Layer","lyr")
OuputFL = os.path.splitext(outName(InputFC,"_Layer","lyr"))[0]
try:
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(InputFC, OutputFL)
except:
arcpy.GetMessages()
#Select Attributes from County Boundary Layer
Field = "CO_NAME"
Counties = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
SQL = whereClause(OutputFL, Field, Counties)
try:
arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(OutputFL,"NEW_SELECTION", SQL)
count = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(OutputFL).getOutput(0))
print '\n',"There are", count, "counties selected from County Boundary layer.",'\n'
except:
print arcpy.GetMessages()
#Copy Selected Feature Layer to new Feature Class
OutputFC = outName(InputFC,"_Selection","shp")
try:
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(OutputFL, OutputFC)
except:
print arcpy.GetMessages()
