Create a shapefile from geometry

Question

Please excuse my lingo, I am still learning some aspects of geo spatial and arcpy.

I have a python script that takes a shapefile. The shapefile consists of a polyline. I have traversed the polyline, done some interpolation and retrieved some points. Long story short, I'm trying to generate polygons along the polyline based on intervals of the M values. These polygons have four points (my geometries).

How can I take these geometries, or points, that are in my python script and output them into a shapefile. I know I'll have to pass my points to a function that produces a shapefile, but that is my dilemma. How exaclty do I create the function that creates my shapefile for the geometries?

Answer 1

Create a new Polyline object, then use CopyFeatures.

import arcpy
coords = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8)]
ar = arcpy.Array()
for x, y in coords:
    ar.add(arcpy.Point(x, y))
polyline = arcpy.Polyline(ar)
arcpy.management.CopyFeatures(polyline, r"c:\path\to\my\new.shp")