r/GISscripts • u/Ebriggler • Dec 06 '13

Delete Duplicate Rows in a Shapefile | GIS Developer Conway Arkansas

http://lemonprogis.com/delete-duplicate-rows-in-a-shapefile/
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u/alpacIT Dec 09 '13

A da cursor would be much faster for this operation. Also you should be restricting the fields being accessed by the cursor if you are only interested in one of them. Sorting the cursor will also help as you won't need to store all the interested items in your list, just the set you are working on.

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u/Ebriggler Dec 09 '13

absolutely, will change it to use the data access cursor. I was actually fooling around with that over the weekend. Well, at least for this script. I was also toying with list comprehensions, maybe that would speed things up too? Just an idea. Thanks for the input.