Question on FeatureclassToFeatureclass tool..

[JoshV]

In my attached script, I simply let the user choose which layer from table of contents they want to do a SelectbyAttributes and then do a FeatureclasstoFeatureclass so they can have a shapefile of the query results.  My problem is that one of the required parameters for FeatureclasstoFeatureclass requires a Name for the output shapefile.  So how can I get which layer the user chose as the Name of the output shapefile??  If I can't do this through my model and I export my model to python, how can I accomplish this through python instead?

Many thanks..

[GerryGabrisch]

Convert the path string to a list, and extract out the last items which is the feature class name.
Something like this in Python...


TheShapefile = "C:/Temp/myshapefile.shp"
ThePathAsAList = TheShapefile.split("/")
TheFileName = ThePathAsAList.pop()
print TheFileName

Then use TheFileName to reconstruct a new string that is the full path to the newly created data.

[JoshV]

Hi Gerry-

Attached is my python script.  Could you give me an idea of where to put your code and what basic changes I need to implement?