On Feb 9, 3:08 pm, Josh English <joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:34:12 AM UTC-8, noydb wrote: > > > How do you add all the records in the particular field of interest > > into long_list? > > Sorry to be unclear. In both cases I was tossing out pseudo-code, as I am not > familiar with the arggisscripting module. long_list is a list with the > records you want, or an iterator that goes through the records. The get_key > function does whatever you need it to do to get the key by which you are > counting. > > Andreas offers a nice pythonic solution in this thread. > > Josh
I apologize if I am not being clear. Bear with me, I am not a programmer by trade, just someone who has to delve into some python scripting occasionally (which I do enjoy!). No, I do not mean "use no imports whatsoever". Just don't want to use ArcGIS sw's module arcgisscritping -- fine to use when needed for GIS processing, but some of my scripts do not need it whatsoever, as I suspect in this case. I have a solution in place, which is fine, but I used arcgisscripting simply to put a search cursor on that field to get the values. This certainly can be done without arcgisscripting, which does add a bit of time to the running of the script. i just do not know how outside of using arcgisscripting search cursor. Just looking to learn how... So, in my scenario, taking into account suggested snippets above.... long_list would start out empty. The values to go into long_list are in one field in a dbf table that contains thousands of records. I need to create a text file containing all the frequencies of values (only to 2 decimal places... in the form "key count"). How do I get those values from the field into the empty list so that this code. Everything else is figured out (textfile, getting the frequencies (per suggestions above)) - just want to know how to add all the values in the column into the empty list? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
