Overview

Cursors

arcpy.da module

Geometrys

Arrays

SpatialReferences

Licensing and Installation

arcpy.*Cursor functions

SearchCursor Syntax

SearchCursor Example

Update Cursor Syntax

Update cursor example

Insert Cursor Syntax

InsertCursor Example

Insert/Update and Locked data

Can not Insert/Update if data is lockedFeature class or table can be locked if it is:

Part of a map in an MXD that is open in ArcMapPart of a workspace being viewed by ArcCatalog

Best practices include:Exit ArcGIS applications when running scripts that create or modify tables or feature classesDelete cursor objects when you have finished using them …

The Data Access (da) module

arcpy.da.Walk( ) – an ArcGIS-aware version of os.path.walk ( )

New at 10.1

SearchCursor Function and Classarcpy Function

arcpy.da Class

SearchCursor Function and Class Example

262 sec for Function0.66 sec for Class~ 400 times faster in this case

Output:

arcpy.da.SearchCursor Class syntaxSearchCursor (in_table, field_names, {where_clause}, {spatial_reference}, {explode_to_points}, {sql_clause})

arcpy.SearchCursor Function syntaxSearchCursor (dataset, {where_clause}, {spatial_reference}, {fields}, {sort_fields})

The Geometry Class

Geometry Properties

Geometry Methods

… and clipcontainsconvexHullcrossesdifferencedisjointdistanceToequalsgetAreagetLengthgetPartintersectoverlapspositionAlongLineprojectAssymmetricDifferencetouchesunionwithin

Reading geometries

Writing geometries using Python

Problem: We have a text file containing a line identifier andx,y coordinates that we would like to use to createpolylines in an new feature class similar to an existing feature class

Solution:Create a script tool that has two inputs (text file name andtemplate feature class) and one output feature class.The script will - Create a new feature class based on the template feature class- Read the ID and coords for each line from the text file- Use an insert cursor to add each line to the new feature class

Before writing polylines to a feature class …

… need some other background

Polylines are created from an array of points

How is a point created?How is an array points created?

Point and PointGeometry Classes

PointGeometry Class

Array Class

Polyline

Writing geometries using Python

For Update/InsertCursor objects, test your scripts on a copy of the dataset. It is sometimes hard to undo modifications to data!

Input file structure:

Spatial reference and cursors

Creating a spatial reference

Licensing and Installation

Licensing and Installation

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Returns license to license manager

Check out license from license manager

See if requested product is available

Information about installation

Install types that used with GetInstallInfo

Current product license

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