Latest Contributions by AndrewChapkowski

You need to pass a path to the function, not the MapDocument object. import arcpy import arcpy.mapping as map mxd = map.MapDocument(r"C:\MGIS\Finalproject2.mxd") mxd.saveACopy(r"c:\MGIS\FINALPROJECT3.mxd") See http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s30000000n000000 for more information. ... View more

Try float(fieldName) not Float(fieldname).  It's case sensative. ... View more

If you are going to convert the values from a string to a number, you probably want to use double since you have decimals. To convert from a string to a number using the python option on the field calculator: float(!MYFIELDNAME!) Did you try changing the field format in excel from a number to a string then perform a join? ... View more

In you SaveToLayerFile(), you do not specify an output directory: arcpy.SaveToLayerFile_management("\"" + inLayer + "\"", "\"" + inLayer + "_layer\"") Try the following: arcpy.SaveToLayerFile_management(inLayer, "C:/output/studyquadsLyr.lyr", "ABSOLUTE") That might fix your issue. ... View more

You can leverage the map service's ability to create layer files to view the service in ArcMap.  For example: http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/CSP_Imagery_World_2D/MapServer?f=lyr&v=9.3 This will allow you to download a layer file (.lyr) to disk.  From there, you can then add the map service layer file to your MXD. ... View more

Use the layer object extent to change your map's dataframe. df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] newExtent = layer.extent df.extent = newExtent One way to obtain the extent is to use a searchcursor(), if you select the feature, you can use getSelectedExtent() or even the layer's getExtent(). Example: arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management("<data>","<layername>",sql) layer = arcpy.mapping.Layer("<layername>") df.extent = layer.getExtent() Hope this helps. ... View more

Ron, Are you using Data driven pages to produce a map for each watershed boundary?  If so, you might be running into issue where the extent properties are not set properly. To get and set the extent, there are many ways to achieve this, could you possible post your code for your whole process or at least where you think the issue is? ... View more

Here is a help document that show how to query time values for the various databases: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s500000033000000.htm ... View more

Check this out: https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx/blob/master/tests/test_docx.py ... View more

Instead of having a dependacy on MS Word, you can use reportlab or you can try docx module found here. docx will create a MS Word document and reportlab will allow you to create the PDF documents. ... View more

Try putting a r infront of your path: Code Example: >>> path = r"c:\temp\scratch.gdb" >>> print path c:\temp\scratch.gdb >>> path = "c:\temp\scratch.gdb" >>> print path c: emp\scratch.gdb ... View more

You can use the encode() on your string: >>> a =  u"di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè" >>> print a.encode('ascii','ignore') din tch, dn s cc n v hnh chnh ca thnh ph or >>> a =  u"di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè" >>> print a.encode('ascii','replace') di?n t?ch, d?n s? c?c ??n v? h?nh ch?nh c?a th?nh ph? or even: >>> a =  u"di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè" >>> print a.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace') di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè You can also convert the string to base64: >>> a =  u"di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè" >>> a = a.encode('base64') >>> print a ZGnDlm4gdMOdY2gsIGTCqW4gc8OoIGPCuGMgwq7CrG4gdsOeIGjCtW5oIGNow51uaCBjw7FhIHRo wrVuaCBwaMOo >>> print a.decode('base64') di�?n tÝch, d©n sè c¸c ®¬n v�? hµnh chÝnh cña thµnh phè Hope this helps. Here are some links that will give you some background information: http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html ... View more

For help programming in python, a good place to start is here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/What_is_Python/002z00000001000000/ ... View more

A good place to look for information like this is here. This might help: http://www.iaeg.info/iaeg2006/PAPERS/IAEG_660.PDF ... View more