Field Indexing, arcpy.SearchCursor

[MikeMacRae]

Does the arcpy.SearchCursor function support field indexing? In the sample script below, can I sent my cursor to loop through the values in the first field by setting an index to search the first field?

for x in arcpy.SearchCursor(filepath):
    print x[0]

[DaveBarrett]

Hi,

Do not believe it is possibly with the old style search cursor. It is def possible in 10.1 with the data access module cursors. These also perform a lot faster.

arcpy.da.SearchCursor(FC,fields)

The fields value is a python lists of fields.

Here is the help for it
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SearchCursor/018w00000011000000

At 10 and before you have to use row.getValue(field)
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//018v00000050000000

Hope this helps


Dave