I am trying to loop through a shapefile, selecting each feature in turn and copying it to a temporary shapefile to by included in a union analysis. I'm using a cursor to find the ID name for each feature which I'm setting to a varible 'Name'. Whenever I try to use this variable as part of the where clause in arcpy.Select_analysis I get an error:
ExecuteError: ERROR 999999: Error executing function. An invalid SQL statement was used. An invalid SQL statement was used. Failed to execute (Select).
The code I'm using is:
Name = 101 where = "\'\"StudyID\" = \\'"+str(Name)+"\\'\'" arcpy.Select_analysis("C:\\input.shp", "C:\\output.shp", where)
If I type it out without using the variables:
arcpy.Select_analysis("C:\\input.shp", "C:\\output.shp", '"StudyID" = \'101\'')
it works fine
What to I need to do to fit the variable into the sql statement?