Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Fundamentals of the Python Language for ArcGIS; Using IDLE for Python script development; Python language fundamentals; Summary; Chapter 2: Writing Basic Geoprocessing Scripts with ArcPy; Introduction; Using the ArcGIS Python window; Accessing ArcPy with Python; Executing tools from a script; Using ArcGIS Desktop help; Using variables to store data; Accessing ArcPy modules with Python; Chapter 3: Managing Map Documents and Layers; Introduction.

Referencing the current map documentReferencing map documents on a disk; Accessing a data frame; Getting a list of layers in a map document; Restricting the list of layers; Changing the map extent; Getting a list of tables; Adding layers to a map document; Inserting layers into a map document; Updating layer symbology; Updating layer properties; Chapter 4: Finding and Fixing Broken Data Links; Introduction; Finding broken data sources in your map document and layer files; Fixing broken data sources with MapDocument.findAndReplaceWorkspacePaths().

Fixing broken data sources with MapDocument.replaceWorkspaces()Fixing individual Layer and Table objects with replaceDataSource(); Finding all broken data sources in all map documents in a folder; Chapter 5: Automating Map Production and Printing; Introduction; Creating a list of layout elements; Assigning a unique name to layout elements; Restricting the layout elements returned by ListLayoutElements(); Updating layout element properties; Getting a list of available printers; Printing maps with PrintMap(); Exporting a map to a PDF file; Exporting a map to an image file.

Creating a map book withPDFDocumentCreate() and PDFDocumentOpen(); Chapter 6: Executing Geoprocessing Tools from Scripts; Introduction; Finding geoprocessing tools; Retrieving a toolbox alias; Executing geoprocessing tools from a script; Using the output of a tool as an input to another tool; Setting environment variables and examining tool messages; Chapter 7: Creating Custom Geoprocessing Tools; Introduction; Creating a custom geoprocessing tool; Chapter 8: Querying and Selecting Data; Introduction; Constructing proper attribute query syntax; Creating feature layers and table views.

Selecting features and rows with the Select Layer by Attribute toolSelecting features with the Select by Location tool; Combining a spatial and attribute query with the Select by Location tool; Chapter 9: Using the Arcpy Data Access Module to Select, Insert, and Update Geographic Data and Tables; Introduction; Retrieving features from a feature class with a SearchCursor; Filtering records with a where clause; Improving cursor performance with geometry tokens; Inserting rows with InsertCursor; Updating rows with an UpdateCursor; Deleting rows with an UpdateCursor.