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You will need a map file somewhere on disk, but you can save copies of it. What you would do is open an MXD with arcpy.mapping.MapDocument, then a layer file with arcpy.mapping.Layer, use layer.replaceDataSource to make it point to the shapefile, then use arcpy.mapping.AddLayer to add the layer which now points to the shapefile to the map document. You would continue until you've added all your layers and then call saveACopy on the MapDocument object to produce your new MXD with all your data sources. ... View more

u means it is a Unicode object, as opposed to a regular (locale-specific) C-style string. Doing this: print [f.name for f in silverware] is trying to get the name property off the string, which does not exist, hence the error. ... View more

print [f.name for f in fields] ... View more

Try this in the Python window: print ", ".join(el.name for el in arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(activeMXD)) this will list the names of every layout element in the document. It may be the case that the name is wrong in the script or it is not found because it is in a group element. If you are using the raw flag on a string, you don't need to escape backslashes. Use one of: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("H:\\My Files\\Test\\Project.mxd") or mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"H:\My Files\Test\Project.mxd") Again, ensure the element is being found: import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Test\Map.mxd") #search for �??Title Block�?� and if found move to desired location for elm in arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, "GRAPHIC_ELEMENT"): if elm.name == "My Map":     print "FOUND IT!"     elm.elementPositionX = 4.75     elm.elementPositionY = 10.5 ... View more

No, you can use ArcObjects at any license level. All you will require is Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express. ... View more

You don't need to use the InsertCursor in Python -- you can do it in ArcObjects in your DLL. Please note the C++ code on this help page for opening a cursor from C++. ... View more

You cannot activate DDP from Python, you can only use DDP-enabled maps.For anything dynamic you might want to think about using an MXD set up for Data Driven Pages already, then use Layer.replaceDataSource to swap out the data for your new feature class. The only issue here is your field names will still need to all be the same. ... View more

When you iterate over a file, each line gives you the final return at the end, you'll need to do something like this: if str(mth) in inlines.rstrip()[-2:] Otherwise line[-2:] is equal to "\r\n" and not your number (which is at [-4:-2]) ... View more

If you're working within ArcMap, the MakeFeatureLayer and MakeRasterLayer tools should do what you want. ... View more

You can only create layer objects from .lyr files. ... View more

You don't need to clear it out each time the way you are, each instance of Array is a stand-alone object: for df in frames:    #Creates a polygon object   poly = arcpy.Polygon(arcpy.Array([df.extent.lowerLeft, df.extent.lowerRight, df.extent.upperRight, df.extent.upperLeft]),          df.spatialReference)           featureList.append(poly)                 # All done ... View more

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You will need to figure out another solution (using pip/virtualenv to build a local installation of Python and/or bundling all your extra libraries in a separate folder and adding it to sys.path hint: modulefinder). If your py2exe bundle includes arcpy and/or arcgisscripting you can exclude them in the blacklist in your setup.py -- that should not only fix the majority of the problem but get you around potential license violations of redistributing Esri binaries. ... View more