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Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849694445
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Pimpler Eric Pimpler
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Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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

Inserting rows with InsertCursor


You can insert a row into a table or feature class using an InsertCursor object. If you want to insert attribute values along with the new row, you'll need to supply the values in the order found in the attribute table.

Getting ready

The InsertCursor() function is used to create an InsertCursor object that allows you to programmatically add new records to feature classes and tables. The insertRow() method on the InsertCursor object adds the row. A row, in the form of a list or tuple, is passed into the insertRow() method. The values in the list must correspond to the field values defined when the InsertCursor object was created. Just as with the other types of cursors, you can also limit the field names returned using the second parameter of the method. This function supports geometry tokens as well.

The following code example illustrates how you can use InsertCursor to insert new rows into a feature class. Here, we are inserting two new wildfire points into...

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