Latest Contributions by JasonScheirer

You can mark the GP tool to run out-of-process in the script tool configuration dialog (uncheck run in process) and the focus contention issue should go away. And I believe PyQT behaves pretty well when run in process, but I have not done extensive testing. ... View more

There should be a narrow gray bar directly to the right of the Python window's scroll bar* that will turn the mouse cursor into a set of left/right arrows when you move the mouse over it. Just click and drag to make it bigger. * It may be along the bottom ... View more

This is due to the nature of the build of the ArcGIS desktop applications. It establishes its own process-level settings in Windows for various binary runtime settings, which in turn causes a failure in any compiled module which has an embedded manifest within it. The binary Python modules (.pyd) include such a manifest, and as noted on the Python.org web site's issue tracker, the issue was not fixed for Python 2.6/2.7 and may likely not be fixed in future versions as well. One possible workaround is to use the Microsoft utility editbin to strip the manifest from the .pyd files of interest using the /ALLOWISOLATION:NO option. ... View more

Not in 10.0. The MapDocument class has a relativePaths attribute, but it is read-only. ... View more

Any model with an iterator will not correctly export to a script. ... View more

Oh, whoops. needs to be directory = r"c:\tiffs\\" ... View more

You can use glob. import arcpy import glob import os directory = r"c:\tiffs\" for tif in glob.glob(os.path.join("*.tif")):     arcpy.ImportMetadata_conversion("example.xml", tif) ... View more

Unfortunately, the solution for this was implemented just recently for 10.1 with ValueTable inputs for script tools. You will need to have two multivalue parameters with some custom validation to make this work for 9.3.1. ... View more

Use the replaceDataSource methods ... View more

Missing indentation in your function block's return statements: "def myfunction(fld1,fld2):\n if (fld1=='0'or fld1=='00'or fld1<'00000000000'):\n   return ''\n else:\n   return fld2" ... View more

Try this: gp.CalculateField_management(fc + "\\Parcels.shp", "SIT_FULL_S", "myfunction(!SIT_HSE_NU!,\"\"!SIT_FULL_S!\"\")", "PYTHON", "def myfunction(fld1,fld2):\n if (fld1=='0'or fld1=='00'or fld1<'00000000000'):\n return ''\n else:\n return fld2") ... View more

Unfortunately due to implementation details, Python doesn't see the ArcMap locale, meaning you essentially have to double-set it, once in ArcGIS and then once again in your Python script. ... View more

Do this: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("C:/Rafiq_GIS/PYTHONTESTING/2011/2011_CountyComm/Projects/Orange/ORA_ComDist_01.mxd") arcpy.mapping.ExportToJPEG(mxd, "C:/Rafiq_GIS/PYTHONTESTING/2011/2011_CountyComm/Maps/Orange/JPEG/ORA_ComDist_01.jpg") ... View more

gp.calculatefield(fn,'area','locale.atof("!shape.area!")','PYTHON') ... View more

Use locale.atof. ... View more