Module 5: Exploring & Manipulating Data

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     This week's lab required us to create a geodatabase and to copy feature layers into it via python code. We were then tasked with creating a search cursor to find cities that were county seats. The lab also had us create a dictionary and populate it with these cities using a for loop. The results of my script are depicted above in screenshots a-e, and the flowchart for the script is shown in screenshot f.

     While printing the results of the search cursor, I kept receiving an error from the POP_2000 field. The value of the field is an integer and the code I was using required a string. I tried putting the code in quotes, but that just returned the code and not the value desired. I took a brief break and realized that I needed to turn the value into a string by placing the code within the str() function. This fix was a simple one, yet it was the only part of the lab that I struggled with.