I tried to populate a field by using the line below in my script but I got the error message below. Please how can I represent the degree (°) & Minute (') symbols in my Python Script. Any suggestions?
arcpy.CalculateField_management("GISMainFabric_Line_Clip_0","Bear",'[NUM1] & "°" & [NUM2]',"VB") File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\ESRI\Desktop10.1\AssemblyCache\{7F12A0CE-D617-8330-5EBC-E045415D9345}\PlanTool_addin.py", line 105 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xb0'
...if I may, I'd like to comment just a bit further on this - I thought I saw a better answer somewhere else a while back so out of curiosity I made a note to look later for it and lo and behold, here is something I think will even appeal to Richard (because it contains a single answer, at the time of this post anyway), please see the below.
I didn't realize this, but there's unicode support in ArcMap for the characters degree, prime (minutes), and double-prime (seconds). These are designated by \u00B0, \u2032, and \u2033', respectively. The apostrophe or single-quote character substitution for minutes will do fine, but since we're talking about it and there's support for it, let's be more exact.
Also, for what it's worth I agree with Matt about making the code more readable -- certainly it has tripped me in comic style like Jerry Lewis or Dick Van Dyke...but back to the point, why not write it in easy fashion without the necessity to escape quotes?
So, try this technique to set the expression (exp):
...if I may, I'd like to comment just a bit further on this - I thought I saw a better answer somewhere else a while back so out of curiosity I made a note to look later for it and lo and behold, here is something I think will even appeal to Richard (because it contains a single answer, at the time of this post anyway), please see the below.
I didn't realize this, but there's unicode support in ArcMap for the characters degree, prime (minutes), and double-prime (seconds). These are designated by \u00B0, \u2032, and \u2033', respectively. The apostrophe or single-quote character substitution for minutes will do fine, but since we're talking about it and there's support for it, let's be more exact.
Also, for what it's worth I agree with Matt about making the code more readable -- certainly it has tripped me in comic style like Jerry Lewis or Dick Van Dyke...but back to the point, why not write it in easy fashion without the necessity to escape quotes?
So, try this technique to set the expression (exp):
