AddWarning (arcpy)

Summary

Creates a geoprocessing warning message (Severity=1) that can be accessed by any of the GetMessages functions.

Syntax

AddWarning (message)
ParameterExplanationData Type
message

The message to add.

String

Code Sample

AddWarning example

Add custom warning message to a script tool.

import arcpy

fc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

# Get the count from GetCount's Result object
feature_count = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(fc).getOutput(0))

if feature_count == 0:
    arcpy.AddError("{0} has no features.".format(fc))
else:
    arcpy.AddMessage("{0} has {1} features.".format(fc, feature_count))

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6/21/2013