Latest Contributions by IanMurray

Alternatively, you can use the Append Tool to add data to those datasets.  You would need to alter/create fields(I'd make a copy of your existing datasets to do this too) ahead of time, but it allows for data uploading to be done programmatically instead of manually. For more on that, see this conference proceedings http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc14/papers/460_238.pdf ... View more

What did you use for your zone field? Are all your buffers a single entry in the attribute table, or does each have its own record in the attribute table?  If they each have unique ID's then the ID field could be used as the zone field, so it calculates only the std for that particular ID area. Also perhaps I should have pointed you towards Zonal Statistics as Table Tool, it seem more like what you are looking for. ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2) ... View more

HI Jessica Have you looked at the Zonal Statistics Tool?  It should be able to calculate the standard deviation for each different buffer area, if you select STD for the statistics type. ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2) Also for the record, you posted this in the GeoNET help area, which is supposed to be for questions regarding Geonet.  I went ahead and shared it with Spatial Analyst and Spatial Statistics, but if possible you should move it to the correct area. ... View more

You could create an empty list and append each file path plus its workspace to the list for each workspace you need, using arcpy.da.walk on each workspace.  That way you have a full file path for each shapefile or feature class in  a list, which you could iterate over creating feature layers and then selecting them by location. ... View more

Whoops I missed the lack of env.workspace. Otherwise, we have to stop posting the almost same responses ... View more

Couple of ways though I think for your purpose, incorporating the original file name to the new file would be best to easily identify the new output. for boundary in FDRABoundaries:   ...     arcpy.Clip_analysis('Wildfires', boundary, boundary + "_Clip" ,  xy_tolerance)  Would use the input file name and then add "_Clip" to the end of it for the output name.  That way you know which dataset was used for the clip. Also xy_tolerance(aka cluster_tolerance) is the 4th parameter for this tool, not the third. See ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2) ... View more

This is far from an ideal solution, since I am uncomfortable with dictionaries, I make a list of lists that contain the attributes for existings fields using the arcpy module.  In the below example, your "template" shapefile needs to be in a seperate directory from the rest, since this script does not check to see if a field already exists.  If your other shapefiles were in multiple directories or subdirectories, we would need to use the os module walk function, or arcpy.da.Walk to create the list of shapes. I do not have data to test on at the moment, so this is untested and I can't show the output. #importing Modules import arcpy #Creating variable for template file path template_shp = "FilePathtoShp" #Making a list of Field Objects fields = arcpy.ListFields(template_shp) #Creating empty list to append field attribute list to allfields = [] #Looping through field objects for field in fields:     #Creating empty list to append field attributes to     field_attributes = []     #Appending all relevant field object elements as strings to list     field_attributes.append(field.name , field.type , field.precision , field.scale, field.length, field.aliasName , field.isNullable , field.required)     #Appending list of field elements to new field list     allfields.append(field_attributes) #Setting workspace arcpy.env.workspace = "directoryofshapefiles" #Creating List of FeatureClasses in workspace shapes = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() #Looping through each shape for shape in shapes:     #Looping through each field     for field in allfields:         #Adding field based on field attributes of original field         arcpy.AddField_management(shape , field[0] , field[1] , field[2], field[3], field[4] , field[5], field[6] , field[7]) I'm sure someone more proficient with python could show a better way. ... View more

Glad it worked for you.  I went ahead an updated my original response with the working code, if you wouldn't mind marking the question as answered. ... View more

the return needs to be within the function, but outside the for-loop. import webbrowser def OpenLink ( [HYPERLINK] 😞     pathlist = [HYPERLINK] .split(" | ")     for path in pathlist:         fullpath = "U:\LWATER\SCANNED" + path         webbrowser.open(fullpath)     return Also, you had 3 spaces for the for-loop indent, but 4 spaces for the function.  I went ahead and made it 4 and 4. ... View more

move the return in my script outside the for-loop, I think it is causing it to end the loop prematurely. ... View more

So is it not opening subsequent hyperlink if there is more than one?  ... View more

Looking at the results, its literally only changing the name of the .shp files, and not some of the other file components that comprise a working shapefile.  Notice your dbf file and prj file are still the old file name when shown in catalog.  You could do a arcpy listfiles with wildcards for those file endings and change the names similar to what you did for the .shp files.  I would also check the other elements of your shapefile in windows (.shx, .sbx, .sbn, etc.) and make sure they are properly renamed as well. ... View more