Latest Contributions by JasonScheirer

Try adding the directory name to the source: mdblist.append(os.path.join("Z:\\COMMON\\GIS\\WORK\\Ron\\NEW", item)) ... View more

You would do something like this: a = "c:\\data\\my.gdb\\featureclass" b = 5 func(a, b) No need to get sys.argv involved. ... View more

Typically you'd set it up to behave like a module: def mainfunc(a, b):   return do_some_stuff(a, b) if __name__ == "__main__":   import sys   mainfunc(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]) Then you can call mainfunc(a, b) in the Python window once you've loaded it in. The interactive console's environment is slightly different than running a standalone script, just like in any other Python prompt (Pythonwin, Idle, etc). ... View more

Functionally they are the same, just getattr and setattr will work on any Python object, not just row objects. ... View more

It can be done in Python, for the time being, with ReportLab (a third-party PDF authoring library). There's a demo script of this on the resource center: link. ... View more

Use setattr: setattr(row, OutField, "Mid") ... View more

Use the getattr builtin: InAge = gp.GetParameterAsText(0) rows = gp.UpdateCursor("c:\temp\test.dbf") row = rows.Next() while row:     if getattr(row, InAge) == 25:         row.Range = "Mid" ... View more

Set the Domain attribute on the Parameter object as a GPCodedValueDomain populated to your values. ... View more

How about this: import arcpy, sys mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("base.mxd") prjList = "q:/python/prj/" # Read in the coordinate system definition prj = arcpy.SpatialReference(prjList+sys.argv[1]+".prj") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] df.spatialRefence = prj mxd.save() del mxd ... View more

In 10, you can add Geoprocessing tools to your toolbars from the Customize window. Any tool that has no parameters will execute immediately when you click its button, giving you a way to get command buttons more-or-less for free with your script tools. You can then code a wxPython or PyQT or TkIinter UI in the geoprocessing script. ... View more

Unfortunately, this is quite difficult to accomplish in 9.3.1, but in 10.0 you can use the __file__ global in script tools to determine the folder a script is running in. The same __file__ global can be used in script tools in 9.3.1, but only if the script is marked to run out of process (in the properties dialog). The recipe you'd use is: os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "my_sde.sde") ... View more

I second the use of the Python logging module for any large/long-running tool. It's fairly trivial to add logging handlers that post to gp.addMessage and gp.addError when the severity level of a logging message is high enough, and you can log less important messages to log files for later inspection, etc. ... View more

So something like this: import arcpy import os arcpy.env.workspace = r"c:\data\file.gdb" my_mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"c:\path\to\my.mxd") data_frame = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(my_mxd)[0] # Switch to data view my_mxd.activeView = data_frame.name # Load standard layer with symbology, append to TOC in first data frame my_layer = arcpy.mapping.Layer(r"c:\path\to\some.lyr") arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(data_frame, my_layer, 'TOP') # Loop through rasters in workspace, swap out layer's source with raster's for fcname in arcpy.ListRasters():     # Full path to raster     new_raster = os.path.join(arcpy.env.workspace, fcname)     # Set layer's source     my_layer.dataSource = new_raster     # Zoom to extent     df.extent = arcpy.Describe(new_raster).extent     # Save to disk     my_mxd.saveACopy("c:\\output\\out_%s.mxd" % fcname) ... View more

Awesome, good to hear. ... View more

%installdir%\bin Alternately, add os.environ["PATH"] += r";c:\program files\arcgis\desktop10.0\bin" to the very top of your Python script so it adds the ArcGIS install's bin to the DLL import path. You might want to make it more robust by looking for the correct install path with _winreg. ... View more