> How do you add all the records in the particular field of interest > into long_list?
>From earlier in the thread you did... import arcgisscripting # Create the geoprocessor object gp = arcgisscripting.create() records_list = [] cur = gp.SearchCursor(dbfTable) row = cur.Next() while row: value = row.particular_field records_list.append(value) I'd rewrite that as... import arcgisscripting gp = arcgisscripting.create() cur = gp.SearchCursor(dbfTable) records_list = [row.particular_field for row in cur] # I've no experience of arcgis, # so I'm assuming that SearchCursor is an iterable of some sort Cheers, Drea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list