13 - Update Cursors - ArcMap Scripting with Python and Arcpy

Learn how to use Python and Arcpy with ArcMap

[christinamccullough]

These videos are very helpful. Could you please increase the font size of your text in the videos?

[PaytonHartman-he]

in the for loop, what does the x stand for and does it need to be defined before hand?

[kerimmirzeyev]

Thank you for these tutorials, . I got this run time error, dont know how to fix this, any idea?
import arcpy

points =

with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(points, ['NAMEALT']) as cursor:
for x in cursor:
print x[0]
x[0] = "WE JUST UPDATED THIS"
cursor.updateRow(x)
print 'We updated this value to {}'.format(x[0])




Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Lenovo/Desktop/Collage/Python/arcpy/update_cursor.py", line 5, in <module>
with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(points, ['NAMEALT']) as cursor:
RuntimeError: cannot open