Latest Contributions by philbennison

I have just taken bits from archelp so its probably all wrong import arcpy arcpy.env.workspace="C:\Users\ME\Docume~1\ArcGIS\Default.gdb" arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management ("Areamap","NEW_SELECTION"," [Type_Of_area] = 'busy') This does say that it works but nothing is selected ... View more

Xander, Thanks for you comprehensive response. I have tried what you suggested but i am still coming up with errors It is coming up with Runtime error  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>   File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\arcpy\arcpy\management.py", line 2335, in CopyFeatures     raise e ExecuteError: ERROR 000210: Cannot create output C:\Users\Phiben\Documents\ArcGIS esti.shp Failed to execute (CopyFeatures).  I really am starting to feel out of my depth ! btw what tool have you used to run your code. I am just using the python window 😕 ... View more

Hi Rebecca, Not sure if don't have a badly installed copy or am just missing stuff. I Don't have a tool menu. I have a geoprocessing menu and a python window but when i open this it is blank (This is where i have been entering my code) If there is a feature when i can copy the code that has been generated by my manual operations that would be awesome Did i mention that i am very new to Python and fairly new to arcGIS 🙂 ... View more

Thanks Dan, I did try to use the help before asking but to be honest as my first bit of python code, it was a bit above me 😞 ... View more