Hi
So heres my problem: I want to create a tool that will take 2 point shapefiles, Change the title of some of their attribute fields, change the value of attributes from an integer to a string (which I think I can do with a for loop with nested if/else statements), then append a third shapefile with the now modified shapefiles.
The way I'm thinking of doing this is to run feature class to feature class conversions on my 2 original shapefiles, saving the outputs in a scratch geodatabase. I'm having trouble thinking up the code to make this happen. Do I change the attribute field names in the conversion? Is there another function or technique that would be better to do it afterword? How do I change the field type from a int to a string using python? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!