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I want to assign numbers to a certain types of building and I need to use field calculator. I tried many different versions of this and I still cant find whats wrong. Could you tell me where do I make a mistake?

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obyv column is a short type... I tried float (among others) but didnt help. – Robert Spal Oct 27 '15 at 12:09
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Looks like a script for VB instead of Python, perhaps check the parser for VB Script? – Joseph Oct 27 '15 at 12:12
    
Thanks a lot! Artwork21s code worked. – Robert Spal Oct 28 '15 at 15:42
    
Artwork 21 has answered this but just for your info (and sanity) write your field calculator expressions in a text editor that supports python syntax highlighting. Notepad++ or similar. It will greatly decrease frustration - the field calculator is such an unfriendly tool. – kingmi Nov 4 '15 at 11:24
    
Yep, I just found out how unfriendly it is. I will use notepad next time. Thanks – Robert Spal Nov 5 '15 at 11:52
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Your python syntax is not correct, try:

def myFunc(typ, oby):
  if typ == 'D':
    return 'Z'
  else: return '25'

function call:

myFunc(!TYP!, !obyy!)
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Here is a working if/then statement in VBS.

For your code, I would think something like this:

Dim result
if [TYP] = "D" then
     result = "Z"
else result = "25"
end if

And:

obyv = result
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Looks like you used "=" rather than "==".

def countRows(rowcount): 
    import arcpy 
    if %rowcount% == 0: 
        return "false" 
    else: 
        return "true"
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There is no need to import arcpy and I think doing so would make this run very slowly. – PolyGeo♦ Nov 4 '15 at 10:50

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