Clipping polygons in a shapefile

[JeffreyVu]

I have posted this question in the Editing forum but I thought this would be done in Python.


I have several polygons in a shapefile with the Priority field. Is it possible that we can write Python code to clip the polygons based on this field?


Thanks in advance.
Jeffrey

[MathewCoyle]

So you want to clip one polygon layer based on say priority = 1 of your other polygon layer, or clip based on each possible priority in the feature class? Yes you can do that.

Make a feature layer with a where clause of the features you want to clip
Clip
Enclose in a for loop if you want to do different where clauses base on variable values.