I NEED TO EXTRACT THE FIRST LETTER AND THE MIDDLE LETTER OF A STRING ATTRIBUTE VALUE

[OLANIYANOLAKUNLE]

I NEED TO EXTRACT THE FIRST LETTER AND THE MIDDLE LETTER OF A STRING ATTRIBUTE VALUE I.E "FIGURINE" , I WANT TO EXTRACT LETTER "F" & "R" TO FORM "FR". PLEASE HELP ME

[RhettZufelt]

Please how can i handle the issue of schema Lock? This schema lock issue is really getting on my nerves.

Best way I have found is to have each script spawned in a separate python process.  So, I have code similar to the following as my main "control" script:

import os

buildings = r"C:\arcgisserver\python\buildings.bat"
mapping = r"C:\arcgisserver\python\mapping.bat"
MRs = r"C:\arcgisserver\python\MRs.bat"
finish = r"C:\arcgisserver\python\finish.bat"

os.system(mapping)
os.system(buildings)
os.system(MRs)
os.system(finish)

Then, the respective .bat files would be similar to:

cd C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1

Python C:\arcgisserver\python\buildings.py

Exit

This way, a sepratate python process is spawned to run each script.  When it hits the "Exit" in the batch file, it closes that python process and releases ALL lock files.  then it moves on to the next script.

Hope this helps,

R_