Chapter 9. Using the ArcPy Data Access Module to Select, Insert, and Update Geographic Data and Tables

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Overview of cursor objects

• Retrieving features from a feature class with SearchCursor

• Filtering records with a where clause

• Improving cursor performance with Geometry tokens

• Inserting rows with InsertCursor

• Updating rows with UpdateCursor

• Deleting rows with UpdateCursor

• Inserting and updating rows inside an edit session

• Reading geometry from a feature class