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ArcPy and ArcGIS

You're reading from   ArcPy and ArcGIS Automating ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS Online with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282513
Length 272 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Silas Toms Silas Toms
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Dara OBeirne Dara OBeirne
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Python for ArcGIS 2. Creating the First Python Script FREE CHAPTER 3. ArcPy Cursors - Search, Insert, and Update 4. ArcPy Geometry Objects and Cursors 5. Creating a Script Tool 6. The arcpy.mapping Module 7. Advanced Analysis Topics 8. Introduction to ArcGIS Online 9. ArcPy and ArcGIS Online 10. ArcREST Python Package 11. ArcPy and ArcGIS Pro 12. ArcGIS API for Python

The ArcGIS Pro Python window

Click on the Analysis tab at the top of the ribbon and choose the Python option:

You should see the Python window appear at the bottom of the interface:

There are two regions of the Python window; they are called Python Prompt and Transcript. In the following figure, you can see each region if we pass a print function:

You should notice how the print function is slightly different here from its appearance in Python 2.7. In Python 3, instead of typing print "hello world", you have to pass the string to a print function, for example, print("hello world"). This is one of the differences between Python 2 and Python 3, which we will cover in more detail in the following section.

Let’s look at how else we can use the Python window in ArcGIS Pro. In your instance of Pro, add the Bus_Stops feature class from our working geodatabase...

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