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I am trying to transform a kml to shapefile via ArcPy with the following code:

import arcpy # Variables KML to Shapefile: KML = r"C:\Test\Polygons.kml" Output_Location = r"C:\Test" Polygons_lyr = "Polygons_lyr" Polygons_geo = r"C:\Test\Polygons_geo.shp" Polygons_shape = r"C:\Test\Polygons.shp" Polygons_gdb = Output_Location Polygons_lyr = "Polygons_example" Polygon_select = Polygons_gdb # Process: KML_To_Layer arcpy.KMLToLayer_conversion(KML, Output_Location, Polygons_lyr, "NO_GROUNDOVERLAY") # Process: Select_Data arcpy.SelectData_management(Polygons_gdb, "Placemarks\\Polygons") # Process: Select arcpy.Select_analysis(Polygon_select, Polygons_geo, "") # Process: Project arcpy.Project_management(Polygons_geo, Polygons_shape, "PROJCS['WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_19S',GEOGCS['GCS_WGS_1984',DATUM['D_WGS_1984',SPHEROID['WGS_1984',6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM['Greenwich',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION['Transverse_Mercator'],PARAMETER['false_easting',500000.0],PARAMETER['false_northing',10000000.0],PARAMETER['central_meridian',-69.0],PARAMETER['scale_factor',0.9996],PARAMETER['latitude_of_origin',0.0],UNIT['Meter',1.0]]", "", "", "NO_PRESERVE_SHAPE", "")

When I run it, it performs the gdb and the layer:

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But when (it seems) when selecting the file in the GDB, the problem occurs. It gives me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:/Test/KML_to_shapefile.py", line 17, in arcpy.SelectData_management(Polygons_gdb, "Placemarks\Polygons") File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.3\ArcPy\arcpy\management.py", line 4310, in SelectData raise e arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000800: The value is not a member of KML_to_shapefile.py | Polygons.kml | Polygons_example.gdb | Polygons_example.lyr. Failed to execute (SelectData).

The error is in line 17, that is in the "arcpy.SelectData_management" function.

How is it possible to fix it?

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  • What is arcpy.SelectData_management? I do not see that as an arcpy tool. Commented Feb 18, 2022 at 16:54
  • What is it you're doing exactly? Why do you need to select the data that is created? The output creates a feature class you could simply project. Note, per the SelectData help: This tool is intended for use in ModelBuilder and not in Python scripting. Commented Feb 18, 2022 at 17:24
  • There is a select data because I got the geoprocess directly from model builder (MB)(export script). But because of this, I realized that you can't always replicate an MB geoprocess to an arcpy script. Commented Feb 18, 2022 at 23:53

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From your code snippet, I think your task is to convert a KML and reproject it. You do not need to perform any sort of select. Your code can simply be the two geoprocessing tools:

# Process: KML_To_Layer result = arcpy.KMLToLayer_conversion(KML, Output_Location, Polygons_lyr, "NO_GROUNDOVERLAY") GDB_FC = result.getOutput(1) + "\\Placemarks\\Polygons" # Process: Project arcpy.Project_management(GDB_FC, Polygons_shape, "PROJCS['WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_19S',GEOGCS['GCS_WGS_1984',DATUM['D_WGS_1984',SPHEROID['WGS_1984',6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM['Greenwich',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION['Transverse_Mercator'],PARAMETER['false_easting',500000.0],PARAMETER['false_northing',10000000.0],PARAMETER['central_meridian',-69.0],PARAMETER['scale_factor',0.9996],PARAMETER['latitude_of_origin',0.0],UNIT['Meter',1.0]]", "", "", "NO_PRESERVE_SHAPE", "")

Note the tool, SelectData is a ModelBuilder tool. From the help:

This tool is intended for use in ModelBuilder and not in Python scripting.

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