Is there a limit to the number of characters in a workspace path when using the Pyton Window?
This example from a tutorial works fine:
>>> mxd.replaceWorkspaces("D:\Student\PythonDesktop10_0\Data\Austin_test.gdb",
"FILEGDB_WORKSPACE",
"D:\Student\PythonDesktop10_0\Data\Westerville.gdb",
"FILEGDB_WORKSPACE")
But this does not:
>>> mxd.replaceWorkspaces("D:\Student\PythonDesktop10_0\Data\Westerville.gdb",
"FILEGDB_WORKSPACE",
"W:\AEP\127142_Opossum_Creek_Smith_Mtn\PER\Environmental\GIS\Data\temp\Austin_test.gdb",
"FILEGDB_WORKSPACE")
Runtime error <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: MapDocObject: Unexpected error
If those were the example paths given they are setting you up for failure. You bombed here \temp\t in a string is read as a tab. To avoid this issue use double \\, / or the easiest method in my opinion, the r tag before your string.mxd.replaceWorkspaces(r"D:\Student\PythonDesktop10_0\Data\Westerville.gdb", "FILEGDB_WORKSPACE", r"W:\AEP\127142_Opossum_Creek_Smith_Mtn\PER\Environmental\GIS\Data\temp\Austin_test.gdb", "FILEGDB_WORKSPACE")
You can read more about string literals, what they do and how to avoid them here.http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals
