Latest Contributions by DanPatterson_Retired

MultiparttoSinglePart tool ... View more

No...but it has been requested, and will probably be the default in future deployments of Arc ... View more

your last two lines are indented incorrectly, you delete the rows in the first pass ... View more

Did you toggle on the extension? (Customize |Extensions) ... View more

If both fields aren't string/text, you can't concatenate them (ie use the + ) unless you convert them to string first ( ie using python's str method) ... View more

did you try rebuilding to see if the original file is in error? ... View more

These two rows   del rows   arcpy.AddMessage("Completed") need to be de-dented to line up with the for statement try:         rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(infc)         for row in rows: # iterate over the rows         ....         ....         del rows         arcpy.AddMessage("Completed") ... View more

What is even stranger is the class/value shown with identify (4) doesn't match that within the raster table (6).  In any event, you would multiply the cell area by the count to get area (which wouldn't help in your case anyway) ... View more

grid tables give cell count which multiplied by the square of the cell width gives area...histogram, IMS...yields area...check in any event ... View more

Grids should never be housed in a folder with spaces.  Check that as the root problem first. ... View more

Check to ensure that you don't have a single point selected by opening the files table and looking at the selection numbers at the bottom of the table ... View more

Just curious ... are these ESRI grids in a folder (ie c:\stuff) or in a gdb? ... View more

Costpath perhaps, but check out the distance toolset at http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/An_overview_of_the_Distance_tools/009z00000014000000/ ... View more

Alex I am sure you can figure out the rest from this verbose coding example: ''' ParsingDataDemo.py A demo file to parse data which is quasi-fixed width File and script must reside in the same folder...fix this if you want ''' import sys, os data_path = (os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) + "/").replace("\\","/")  #can be skipped if you follow data_file = data_path + "ParsingDataDemoData.txt"    #fix this or better still create a tool #data_file should be sys.argv[1] which allows a user to select a file in a folder a_file = open(data_file) data = a_file.readlines() for a_line in data:   record_type = a_line[:3]   parcel_num = a_line[3:11]   the_rest = a_line[11:]   print record_type, parcel_num, the_rest ... View more

By any chance is this thread related to this thread, re the sorting issue? http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/36757-No-sort-option-in-the-DA-module-cursors ... View more