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You're reading from Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook This book provides the recipes you need to use Python with AcrGIS for more effective geoprocessing. Shortcuts, scripts, tools, and customizations put you in the driving seat and can dramatically speed up your workflow.

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849694445

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ArcGIS

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Author (1):

Eric Pimpler

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Fundamentals of the Python Language for ArcGIS

2. Writing Basic Geoprocessing Scripts with ArcPy FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing Map Documents and Layers

4. Finding and Fixing Broken Data Links

5. Automating Map Production and Printing

6. Executing Geoprocessing Tools from Scripts

7. Creating Custom Geoprocessing Tools

8. Querying and Selecting Data

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

10. Listing and Describing GIS Data

11. Customizing the ArcGIS Interface with Add-Ins

12. Error Handling and Troubleshooting

Automating Python Scripts

Five Things Every GIS Programmer Should Know How to Do with Python

Index

Using the ArcGIS Python window

In this recipe, you'll learn how to use the ArcGIS Python window. In Chapter 1, Fundamentals of the Python Language for ArcGIS, you learned how to use the IDLE development environment for Python, so this chapter will give you an alternative for writing your geoprocessing scripts. Either development environment can be used but it is common for people to start writing scripts with the ArcGIS Desktop Python window and then move on to IDLE when scripts become more complex. I should also mention that there are many other development environments that you may want to consider, including PythonWin, Wingware, Komodo, and others. The development environment you choose is really a matter of preference.

Getting ready

The new Python window is an embedded, interactive Python window in ArcGIS Desktop 10, that is ideal for testing small blocks of code, learning Python basics, building quick and easy workflows, and executing geoprocessing tools. However, as your scripts become...

You're reading from Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook This book provides the recipes you need to use Python with AcrGIS for more effective geoprocessing. Shortcuts, scripts, tools, and customizations put you in the driving seat and can dramatically speed up your workflow.

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Using the ArcGIS Python window

Getting ready

Authors (2)

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