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# Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

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This book provides the recipes you need to use Python with AcrGIS for more effective geoprocessing. Shortcuts, scripts, tools, and customizations put you in the driving seat and can dramatically speed up your workflow. Overview Learn how to create geoprocessing scripts with ArcPy Customize and modify ArcGIS with Python. Create time-saving tools and scripts for ArcGIS. In Detail ArcGIS is an industry standard geographic information system from ESRI. This book will show you how to use the Python programming language to create geoprocessing scripts, tools, and shortcuts for the ArcGIS Desktop environment. This book will make you a more effective and efficient GIS professional by showing you how to use the Python programming language with ArcGIS Desktop to automate geoprocessing tasks, manage map documents and layers, find and fix broken data links, edit data in feature classes and tables, and much more. "Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook" starts by covering fundamental Python programming concepts in an ArcGIS Desktop context. Using a how-to instruction style you’ll then learn how to use Python to automate common important ArcGIS geoprocessing tasks. In this book you will also cover specific ArcGIS scripting topics which will help save you time and effort when working with ArcGIS. Topics include managing map document files, automating map production and printing, finding and fixing broken data sources, creating custom geoprocessing tools, and working with feature classes and tables, among others. In "Python ArcGIS 10.1 Programming Cookbook" you’ll learn how to write geoprocessing scripts using a pragmatic approach designed around an approach of accomplishing specific tasks in a Cookbook style format. What you will learn from this book Fundamental Python programming skills. Update layer properties and symbology. Automate map production, printing, and the creation of PDF map books. Find and fix broken data links in your map document files. Create custom geoprocessing tools that can be shared with others. Schedule your geoprocessing scripts to run after hours. Create new feature classes or tables and add records, as well as edit feature classes and tables. Customize the ArcGIS Desktop interface with Python add-ons. Approach This book is written in a helpful, practical style with numerous hands-on recipes and chapters to help you save time and effort by using Python to power ArcGIS to create shortcuts, scripts, tools, and customizations. Who this book is written for "Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook" is written for GIS professionals who wish to revolutionize their ArcGIS workflow with Python. Basic Python or programming knowledge is essential(?)

Review: Excellent starter book - This book is well organized and easy to follow and the accompanying CD is very helpful. There are so few books in this subject at present; I recommend this book to students.
Review: A Basic and Useful Introduction to Using Python with ArcGIS - After working through all of the chapters and examples I decided to increase my rating from four to five stars -- now after reviewing David W. Allen's "GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting" I placed it back at four stars. The book's target audience is GIS professionals who "wish to revolutionize their ArcGIS workflow with Python." To this end it provides explanations and examples of the essential building blocks to automate various tasks. For me it was good practice and I did learn some new things. I believe the author's stated purpose is accomplished with this book. Other reviewers have been unduly harsh because their expectations were too high. If you are experienced with ArcGIS but inexperienced with Python or knowledgeable about Python but relatively new to ArcGIS then I believe this book should be useful to you, but not necessarily the one you should buy -- for that check out David W. Allen's "GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting" (ESRI Press, 2014). The explanations are clear and understandable and the examples satisfactory. Chapter by chapter the author presents essential building blocks of concepts, principles and examples. In Chapter 7 and beyond the material and examples are more sophisticated so the reader progressively deepens their knowledge and toolset. Some reviewers have complained about the book's numerous errata at the publisher's website and I agree it is annoying. The mistakes and typos are mostly minor and pertain to code examples -- I don't think they were excessive and for many technical books with some publishers there are bound to be some mistakes. It was a useful challenge correcting those problems not identified by the errata at the publisher's website. Not mentioned is that some of the maps used in several chapters will open with broken data links but this is for the purpose of using arcpy.mapping capabilities to fix the broken links. Perhaps the most serious deficiency of the book is the amount of attention given to the arcpy.mapping module -- there are a more limited number of examples for the other modules available with Python (for example, the data access module is covered in Chapter 10) so keep in mind this book is a starting point and not a comprehensive introduction to Python and ArcGIS. There are many other books solely on Python -- for example, the excellent "Python Cookbook" mentioned by at least one other reviewer -- but currently there is a scarcity of books on Python and ArcGIS. One good book that is available right now is Paul A. Zandbergen's "Python Scripting for ArcGIS" (2013) from ESRI Press which I also own. Both the Zandbergen and Pimpler books are good introductions to Python scripting with ArcGIS. The Zandbergen book is excellent and the more sophisticated of the two. If you are looking to buy just one of these books then the Zandbergen book will provide a solid introduction but also enable you to get a trial version of ArcGIS software -- a great buy if you need the software. The Zandbergen book offers a more in-depth introduction to using Python with ArcGIS. Forthcoming in the summer of 2014 are more books on Python and ArcGIS from several publishers including ESRI Press. I especially recommend that you check out the book by David W. Allen from ESRI Press -- he usually writes excellent books.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #7,186,123 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,260 in Python Programming #10,911 in Computer Programming Languages #24,166 in Computer Software (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 3.6 out of 5 stars 15 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent starter book
*by B***E on May 29, 2013*

This book is well organized and easy to follow and the accompanying CD is very helpful. There are so few books in this subject at present; I recommend this book to students.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Basic and Useful Introduction to Using Python with ArcGIS
*by M***N on February 17, 2014*

After working through all of the chapters and examples I decided to increase my rating from four to five stars -- now after reviewing David W. Allen's "GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting" I placed it back at four stars. The book's target audience is GIS professionals who "wish to revolutionize their ArcGIS workflow with Python." To this end it provides explanations and examples of the essential building blocks to automate various tasks. For me it was good practice and I did learn some new things. I believe the author's stated purpose is accomplished with this book. Other reviewers have been unduly harsh because their expectations were too high. If you are experienced with ArcGIS but inexperienced with Python or knowledgeable about Python but relatively new to ArcGIS then I believe this book should be useful to you, but not necessarily the one you should buy -- for that check out David W. Allen's "GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting" (ESRI Press, 2014). The explanations are clear and understandable and the examples satisfactory. Chapter by chapter the author presents essential building blocks of concepts, principles and examples. In Chapter 7 and beyond the material and examples are more sophisticated so the reader progressively deepens their knowledge and toolset. Some reviewers have complained about the book's numerous errata at the publisher's website and I agree it is annoying. The mistakes and typos are mostly minor and pertain to code examples -- I don't think they were excessive and for many technical books with some publishers there are bound to be some mistakes. It was a useful challenge correcting those problems not identified by the errata at the publisher's website. Not mentioned is that some of the maps used in several chapters will open with broken data links but this is for the purpose of using arcpy.mapping capabilities to fix the broken links. Perhaps the most serious deficiency of the book is the amount of attention given to the arcpy.mapping module -- there are a more limited number of examples for the other modules available with Python (for example, the data access module is covered in Chapter 10) so keep in mind this book is a starting point and not a comprehensive introduction to Python and ArcGIS. There are many other books solely on Python -- for example, the excellent "Python Cookbook" mentioned by at least one other reviewer -- but currently there is a scarcity of books on Python and ArcGIS. One good book that is available right now is Paul A. Zandbergen's "Python Scripting for ArcGIS" (2013) from ESRI Press which I also own. Both the Zandbergen and Pimpler books are good introductions to Python scripting with ArcGIS. The Zandbergen book is excellent and the more sophisticated of the two. If you are looking to buy just one of these books then the Zandbergen book will provide a solid introduction but also enable you to get a trial version of ArcGIS software -- a great buy if you need the software. The Zandbergen book offers a more in-depth introduction to using Python with ArcGIS. Forthcoming in the summer of 2014 are more books on Python and ArcGIS from several publishers including ESRI Press. I especially recommend that you check out the book by David W. Allen from ESRI Press -- he usually writes excellent books.

### ⭐ Extremely basic
*by N***T on March 5, 2013*

This book is an extremely basic introduction to the ArcGIS 10.1 ArcPy module, with a few minor additions whose link to ArcGIS (or to GIS at all) is tenuous (sending emails? Really? And the first chapter is a generic intro to python, better covered in dozens of other dedicated resources). The "recipes" are almost all single ArcPy methods demonstrated; those seeking interesting problems and novel solutions (like the aging, but excellent "Python Cookbook") will be sorely disappointed. No real-world problems are discussed - the output from many (most?) recipes is print statements, hardly useful for much more than toy problems. On the plus side, the examples are clearer and more consistent in style than many of ESRI's own, particularly with the consistent use of the "with" statement that leads to much clearer and easier to debug code. But the chosen book structure makes several sections highly repetitive - a method is demostrated in one recipe, and then the next virtually repeats the entire thing to add an SQL query. There's also some questionable advice, like explicitly telling readers to issue "import arcpy" even in the ArcMap python console "as a good habit"; perhaps it would be good to understand the context in which you're issuing commands? The dumb insistance on this does allow the author to pad out each and every example though, because he includes it even when it's entirely un-needed. And this is not the only use of unnecessary/pointless import statements - many recipes import the "os" module and then never use it, which is hardly good style (though to be fair, ESRI documentation and training teaches similar crappy habits). If you're looking for interesting problems with practical solutions and a deep discussion of alternatives (like the "Python Cookbook") you'll be very disappointed. If this is a cookbook, it's of the "cheese on toast" variety. Only worth it for the absolute beginner - even as someone who'd never used 10.1 before, though who has a reasonable amount of experience with python and previous ArcGIS versions, I learned more from 5 minutes with the help files. Money wasted.

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