Latest Contributions by DanPatterson_Retired

Check the qualified field names environment setting, http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001w00000008000000 I think it might solve the quirky file.fieldname issue that you allude to ... View more

Google search on Python format number with commas yields several options, eg. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1823058/how-to-print-number-with-commas-as-thousands-separators-in-python-2-x ... View more

You can only process one raster as output at a time ... View more

In Python either use: raw notation    r"c:\temp" double backslashes "c:\\temp" single foreslashes "c:/temp" when specifying path names ... View more

you should never be using folders that contain spaces for either the inputs or outputs, try fixing that first ... View more

Intersect http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00080000000p000000.htm ... View more

Mosaic to new raster in data management tools is an option http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001700000098000000 ... View more

there is some information on this within the help files, don't know if it will help you much http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00p60000001m000000.htm ... View more

If you have ArcGIS 10, then use bounding containers with the extent rectangle option, this will provide the base information that you need. http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=3D230972-1422-2418-34A5-2F3FFF97C238 ... View more

If you are developing and testing scripts, it is often useful to include a reload(arcpy) line after the initial import, nothing gets changed once arcpy gets loaded until you quit python or pythonwin, hence, a reload causes arcpy to get reinstantiated removing the need to quit and start again.  Once script development is done, then you can comment out the line.  This applies to other modules that are imported, including user-developed ones, or numpy etc etc. ... View more

instead of arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = "True" try a boolean instead of a text string arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True or arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = 1 ... View more

fix all file paths in your script, they should be double-backslashes, single forward-slashes or use the raw notation, ie "c:\\temp" "c:/temp" r"c:\temp" ... View more

CON should be Con in 10 don't know about the % stuff and dot notation isn't supported as far as I know in 10 ... View more

like this? a_list = ["111-11-1","222-22-2","333-33-3"] split_list = [] for a_val in a_list:   vals = a_val.split("-")   small_list = []   for a_num in vals:     small_list.append(int(a_num))   if small_list[0] <= 180:     small_list[0] += 180   else:     small_list[0] -= 180   print small_list ... View more

if it is an attribute query that is being used to split the file into separate shapefiles, then check Split Layers By Attribute (for version 10) at http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=37AEB018-1422-2418-A036-CA6D9920F808 ... View more