[Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

[Chris Bromley]

Dear all, 

I have several thousand files in dBaseIV format that I need to convert to shapefiles for use in ArcGIS. I've written a script (see below) to automate this process but thus far have been unable to get it to work. I suspect that there's a simple reason for this, but I'm a complete novice with Python and have been unable to find it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards, 

Chris Bromley 


##Script Name: dBase Table to Shapefile
##Description: Converts dBase files to shapefiles
##Created By: Chris Bromley.
##Date: 16/02/2005

# Import system modules
import sys, string, os, win32com.client

# Create the Geoprocessor object
gp = win32com.client.Dispatch("esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1")

try:
    # Load required toolboxes...    
    gp.AddToolbox("C:/Program Files/ArcGIS/ArcToolbox/Toolboxes/Conversion Tools.tbx")
    gp.AddToolbox("C:/Program Files/ArcGIS/ArcToolbox/Toolboxes/Data Management Tools.tbx")

    #Define & create variables to contain the source files and output file location paths
    gp.workspace = "C:\PhD\ElwhaRiverProject\Physical_modelling\Model_Data_Corrected\Tester3\One"
    out_workspace = "C:\PhD\ElwhaRiverProject\Physical_modelling\Model_Data_Corrected\Tester3"

    # Get a list of the dBase tables in the workspace
    fcs = gp.ListTables("*","dBase")
    # Loop through the list of feature classes
    fcs.reset()
    fc = fcs.next()

    while fc:
        # Set the output filename for each output to be the same as the input filename
        output = out_workspace + fc
        # Process: Make XY Event Layer...
        gp.MakeXYEventLayer_management(fc, "x", "y", output, "")
        # Process: Feature Class To Shapefile (multiple)...
        gp.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion(output, out_workspace, )
        fc = fcs.next()

except:
    gp.AddMessage(gp.GetMessages(2))
    print gp.GetMessages(2)



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