Latest Contributions by ShaunWalbridge

Hello, I see, that makes good sense. The training materials you're using are for ArcGIS 9.3, and the toolbar has been integrated into the rest of the geoprocessing environment in a more consistent way at ArcGIS 10. For those particular options, you'll want Geoprocessing > Environments..., which allows you to control the options in that dialog and others. This thread includes details on how to add back a 9.3 style Spatial Analyst menu, and this blog post includes some details on the change. Best wishes, Shaun ... View more

I've create an example, example-toolbox.pyt that hopefully clarifies (also as a Github Gist😞 import arcpy class Toolbox(object):     def __init__(self):         self.label = u'Example_Toolbox'         self.alias = ''         self.tools = [FirstTool, SecondTool, ThirdTool] class FirstTool(object):     def __init__(self):         self.label = u'First Tool'         self.description = u''         self.canRunInBackground = False         self.category = "Import"     def getParameterInfo(self):         return     def execute(self, parameters, messages):         pass class SecondTool(object):     def __init__(self):         self.label = u'Second Tool'         self.description = u''         self.canRunInBackground = False         self.category = "Export"     def getParameterInfo(self):         return     def execute(self, parameters, messages):         pass class ThirdTool(object):     def __init__(self):         self.label = u'Third Tool'         self.description = u''         self.canRunInBackground = False         self.category = "Export"     def getParameterInfo(self):         return     def execute(self, parameters, messages):         pass You'll then have two categories within your toolbox: Export and Import, Import will contain one item and Export will contain two. cheers, Shaun ... View more

NOTE: as of Version 10.3, the SpatialReference object contains the "latitudeOfOrigin" property, and the trick below is unncessary. Hi Tim, It looks like a property which should be included in the SpatialReference object, but I don't see it either. For a quick and dirty hack, you can pull the relevant string out of the exportToString() results: import arcpy import re # a projection with a latitude of origin property proj = 'NAD 1983 Contiguous USA Albers'  sr = arcpy.SpatialReference(proj)  lat_of_origin_regex = "Latitude_Of_Origin',(\d+\.?\d*)]" match = re.search(lat_of_origin_regex, sr.exportToString()) if match: lat_of_origin = float(match.groups()[0])     print "{0} has latitude of origin {1}".format(proj, lat_of_origin) else:     print "no latitude of origin detected." Set up your own spatial reference object in the code above, and you should be able to use the lat_of_origin variable to get what you need. cheers, Shaun ... View more

I can confirm that it doesn't work by doing a simple join when inside of an FGDB, you'd need to perform arcpy.CopyRows_management() prior to joining. But better than that, have you seen arcpy.da.ExtendTable? That looks to do what you need in one command. ... View more