Converting Decimal Degrees to Degrees Minutes Seconds with Python

Thanks to this post at Another GIS Blog I was saved the time of having to figure out how to do this calculation on my own.

And I just the author posted that TODAY, just 8 hours ago. That is crazy.

Thanks Guy.

Tricky Data driven pages

I was having a problem with a data driven pages script where I needed to use the pageRow property to access an attribute. The only examples I found required hard coding the field name but after a little Googleing I found someones suggestion to use:

fieldName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.getValue(fieldName)


This brings in the field name from the input.