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Bug

Running arcpy.management.SelectLayerByAttribute through multiple iterations, when the input is a feature class or table, results in each iteration being slower than the previous iteration.

Zuletzt veröffentlicht: February 22, 2023 ArcGIS Pro
Bug-ID-Nummer BUG-000153589
EingereichtNovember 9, 2022
Zuletzt geändertOctober 7, 2024
Gilt fürArcGIS Pro
Gefunden in Version3.0.2
BetriebssystemWindows OS
Betriebssystemversion10.0 64 Bit
StatusAs Designed

Zusätzliche Informationen

Using the dataset instead of a layer as an input to the SelectBy tools is for convenience reasons. But it incurs some performance problems, as captured and explained in this issue. If performance is a concern, see the workaround. When a dataset is passed as an input to the SelectBy tools, the first step is to generate a unique layer name. The heuristic is to create a layer based on the input name and if the layer exists, add an incrementing numeric value. So if the input dataset is 'city.shp', the tool generates 'cityLayer' in the first loop. The second loop also generates 'cityLayer' but as this returns 'True' to the existence check, the name of the layer is renamed to 'cityLayer1'. The third loop hits two name collisions before settling on 'cityLayer2',  and so on. By the 100th iteration, we have 99 existence checks returning 'True', allowing to settle on 'cityLayer99'. The slowdown in the later parts of the iteration is due to this.

Workaround

Use arcpy.management.MakeFeatureLayer to create a feature layer to be used as an input for arcpy.management.SelectLayerByAttribute. Refer to the following ArcMap documentation for more information: https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/select-layer-by-attribute.htm

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Bug-ID: BUG-000153589

Software:

  • ArcGIS Pro

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