In addition to being used to edit rows in a table or feature class, UpdateCursor
can also be used to delete rows. Keep in mind that when rows are deleted outside an edit session, the changes are permanent.
In addition to updating records, UpdateCursor
can also delete records from a table or feature class. The UpdateCursor
object is created in the same way in either case, but instead of calling updateRow()
, you call deleteRow()
to delete a record. You can also apply a where
clause to UpdateCursor
, to limit the records returned. In this recipe, we'll use an UpdateCursor
object that has been filtered using a where
clause to delete records from our FireIncidents
feature class.