Latest Contributions by MathewCoyle

If the field isn't indexed and has a lot of unique variables the sort can take a while. I wouldn't think it would be in the order of 8 minutes though. The 9.3 cursors were not quite as fast if I recall. If you are reading the feature class in the update cursor instead of a layer how you are with the field calculator that can also have an impact. ... View more

Try putting some tests in to see if locks are being held. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000v00000024000000 Also it would help to post your error messages. I also find running scripts in functions help clean up problems like this between runs. ... View more

I would suspect it is because you are using the default workspace in ArcMap and setting SDE as your workspace in your stand-alone script. ... View more

Can you access tools through the Toolbox? ... View more

Yes, that is what you are doing in your code by setting your workspace to SDE and creating the tableview with the same name as the source. ... View more

Have you set your overwriteoutput in your code? env.overwriteOutput = True ... View more

Try arcpy.Append_management(os.path.join(outputFolder,"KML3"),FC,"NO_TEST") Edit: You need to import the os module for this method to work of course. ... View more

Some geoprocessing tools cannot take in_memory datasets as inputs/outputs. ... View more

Your mysettings.py should be something along these lines, depending on what it does. def main():     myvar = "This is imported."     return myvar if __name__ == '__main__':     main() Your irp.py should be something like this. import mysettings def main():     print mysettings.main() if __name__ == '__main__':     main() ... View more

You need to do something like this in your irp.py mysettings.main() When you import a module it isn't executed as the __main__ so it needs to be called by function if you have it setup that way. ... View more

FeatureClassToFeatureClass ... View more

Cursors are much faster than field calculations, so performance would improve using an UpdateCursor. ... View more

Or even better. Through this method you don't have to worry about what format the variables go through as. Add field/attribute delimiters as needed. Expression = "MER = {0} AND TWP = {1} AND RNG = {2} AND SEC = {3}".format(MER,TWP,RNG,SEC) I should also add this was only implemented in Python 2.6, so ArcGIS 10 and above. ... View more

Have you tried deleting your normal.mxt? ... View more