From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
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ArcGIS Python module - ArcGIS Tutorial
From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
ArcGIS Python module
- [Instructor] The arcpy module gives a script access to GIS maps, data, and functionality via a set of submodules, classes, and methods. It's a Python scripting library, which is a collection of modules, functions, and object classes. It gives access to GIS functionality with Python, including running geoprocessing tools from scripts, working with map documents, and accessing layers and their properties, it's an object. arcpy has to be imported into each script. The arcpy module is actually a collection of modules. We'll look at a few of the modules that make up arcpy. arcpy.mapping, arcpy.mapping module includes class definitions for map documents, data frames, layers, spatial references, and all the other building blocks of ArcGIS. There's also a data access module. The data access module includes ways to get at the individual features in a feature class and the individual records in a table. We use the data access module to get to the coordinates behind a line, for example…
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