I have a shapefile that contains 200+ metropolitan cities. In each city, there are some tract polygons. The dbf table looks like:
tract city xvar
1 0040 20
2 0040 12
3 0040 45
... ... ...
5 5602 22
6 5602 44
... ... ...
My goal is to select a city and save it as a separate shapefile the name of which is the same as the city code:
0040.shp
tract city xvar
1 0040 20
2 0040 12
3 0040 45
... ... ...
5602.shp
tract city xvar
5 5602 22
6 5602 44
... ... ...
How should I automate this process for all the cities using arcpy?
Best Answer
You can use Select (Analysis) to perform this operation. This method has the added benefit of preserving your attributes. There are two main steps: