Shapefile to Geodatabase scripting?

[TomHutchinson]

Hi all

I've built a model in model builder (9.2) and need to export the resulting output shape files into a Geodatabase within the same directory.

Normally I would use the 'Feature class to Geodatabase' tool within model builder however there are different output shape files created each time I run the model therefore conventional tools are not apopropriate.

I'm fairly new to Python and need the barebones of a script that will cut shapefiles from a directory into my Geodatabase.

Thanks,
Tom

[JamesCrandall · Accepted solution]

Hi all

I've built a model in model builder (9.2) and need to export the resulting output shape files into a Geodatabase within the same directory.

Normally I would use the 'Feature class to Geodatabase' tool within model builder however there are different output shape files created each time I run the model therefore conventional tools are not apopropriate.

I'm fairly new to Python and need the barebones of a script that will cut shapefiles from a directory into my Geodatabase.

Thanks,
Tom

Quickly put together, but it worked for me (ArcGIS 9.3.1). 

import arcgisscripting gp = arcgisscripting.create()  inputLocation = "C:\shps"  gp.Workspace = inputLocation  fcs = gp.ListFeatureClasses()  fcs.reset() fc = fcs.next() while fc:   ### to work with a File GDB, then use the .gdb extension   gp.FeatureClasstoGeodatabase(fc, inputLocation + "\\testFGDB.gdb")   ### to work with a Personal GDB, then use the .mdb file extension instead   gp.FeatureClasstoGeodatabase(fc, inputLocation + "\\testPGDB.mdb")    gp.AddMessage(str(fc) + " loaded into GDB")   fc = fcs.next()