search cursor in pythonwin 2.1

[GISDude]

On Feb 18, 2:19 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:12:20 -0300, GISDude <gisdudes... at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
> > I am a GIS(geographic information systems) Analyst and in our
> > software(ESRI ARCGIS 9.1) ESRI has implemented Python 2.1 as the
> > scripting language of choice.
>
> > In my script I'm going thru a dbf file and extracting NON-NULL values
> > in a field. What I need to do with that is create a new dbf table with
> > the values I found in it.
>
> I think you should either read the ArcGis documentation, or post your
> question in a specilized forum.
> Your problem is not about Python itself, but on how to use the
> esriGeoprocessing object.
>
> > GP.Select_Analysis("neighborhoods.shp", "neighborhoods_names.shp", '
> > "Names" <> \ "null\" ')
>
> >                    #at this point I'm stuck. how do I query out a NON-
> > NULL value?
> >                    #or a value in the Names field?
>
> As a side note, on a standard SQL database, the condition would read
> "Names IS NOT NULL", but I don't know if this is applicable or not.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Gabriel,

Thanks for the reply. After looking at the docs again, you are correct
"NAMES" IS NOT NULL would be the correct syntax.

I thought it was "NAMES" <> NULL

Thanks again