That's great Amy!And just to go a little further because I think I steered you a wee bit wrong in post 4, I said this was 'wrong' but now I don't think so (except you needed the 'if' statement of course):cursor.updateRow([row[0][2:]])Actually, I think your code could be shortened to almost what you had originally, see the following, if I can get the formatting preserved from your last post:
>>> import arcpy
>>> fc = r"H:/Test.gdb/XY_1_1"
>>> cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fc, ["NM"])
>>> prefix = ["XY", "RR"]
>>> for row in cursor:
... if row[0][:2] in prefix:
... cursor.updateRow([row[0][2:]])
... else:
... print "Name is up-to-date"
...where 'row[0]' is your field object from the list that was previously specified as row = row[0]. Just this line was removed....I didn't test this, but pretty certain it works. I'm just saying you should be able to do it either way.Hope that makes sense....I'm more accustomed 'seeing' it the other way and actually you should probably make it however is most readable to you (or your workmates, if they see the code).Enjoy,WayneEDIT:That's very interesting - and the code I posted may not work! (That's what you get when you post code you have not tested, lol!)In the Method Overview for the da (data access) module for the UpdateCursor, I only see 'updateRow(row)' where row must be the row object of the cursor -- so if the above code does not work (sorry) or if having trouble, you could try this (I cannot test this da update cursor method at the moment):
>>> import arcpy
>>> fc = r"H:/Test.gdb/XY_1_1"
>>> cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fc, ["NM"])
>>> prefix = ["XY", "RR"]
>>> for row in cursor:
... if row[0][:2] in prefix:
... row = row[0][2:]
... cursor.updateRow(row)
... else:
... print "Name is up-to-date"
