Getting string data from a shape file attribute table

[fionasimpson]

Hello

I am looking to extract string field from a shapefile attribute table to then allow me to do a number of IF logic calculations but I am not sure how to get that specific field from the shapefile to the allow me to script the calculations.

Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Fiona

[Zeke · Accepted solution]

Some help here...

import arcpy  fc = 'yourfeatureclass' strfld = 'yourstringfield'  with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, strFld) as cur:     for row in cur:         valueyouwant = row[0]         # do something with valueyouwant     

[fionasimpson]

Thanks

That's great i have it working now.

Fiona