Greetings, International Development Advisor, currently in the field. So, this issue is a bit pressing as I am providing support for Primary Health Care clinics. A simple Python script works in the ArcMAP Python Window, but not in the Field Calculator. I have attached a screen capture. I'm trying SQL layer definitions as a workaround. Thanks!
I think the problem is with the encoding of strings.
You seem to get this error when you use %loadpy bar.py:
and bar.py has at the top of the file:
# coding: utf-8
or
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
see: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1103 and https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/3245/
I assume your python interpreter is doing %loadpy bar.py somewhere
possible fixes:
1) Change/update you python interpreter! As this issue seems to have been fixed (see links above)
2) Try writing your function as a python file, foo.py. Then running from the terminal "python foo.py" to see if you get the same error! I suspect that might work.
3) Remove the # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from the top of appropriate files.
Cheers,
Jack
Hi Jack, Many thanks for your answer. I have done 3 and not 1 and 2. So will try the first opportunity I get. For now, I accomplished the same task with VB Script. After fruitless hours researching Python. ESRI will have to try harder if it wants users like me to adopt Python as the "script de jour" for ARC Map. I really could have done without the aggravation.
I would do something like this in Field Calculator.
def foo(vparam):
if 'City'.lower() in vparam.lower():
mvar = vparam
elif 'Hanoun'.lower() in vparam.lower():
mvar = vparam
elif 'Camp'.lower() in vparam.lower():
mvar = vparam
else:
mvar = 'Other'
return mvar
Then make sure you put exclamation marks around the field in the second box.
foo(!StrField!)
In that example the filed name is StrField, and the function name is foo.
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