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What I am hoping to be able to achieve with this Tool within my Toolbox is to allow the user to input a number of layers and to set all of the labels with the same font settings (font style, color, size, etc.). I started with the font size. Within my getParameterInfo() function, I have defined the following parameters:

        updlayers = arcpy.Parameter(
        displayName = "Layers with features to be updated",
        name = "updlayers",
        datatype = "GPValueTable",
        parameterType = "Required",
        direction = "Input")

        labelFontSize = arcpy.Parameter(
        displayName = "Label Font Size",
        name = "labelFontSize",
        datatype = "GPDouble",
        parameterType = "Required",
        direction = "Input")

Then, within my execute function, I have the following pieces of code:

 updlayers = parameters[1].values
 labelFontSize = parameters[2].value

 for layers in updlayers:
        for labels in layers:
            labels.showLabels = True
            for a in labels.labelClasses:
                    a.expression = '"%s" + [Name] + "%s"' %  ("<BOL><FNT name='Arial' size='labelFontSize'>","</FNT></BOL>")

I know that my code works fine if I replace 'labelFontSize' to an actual numerical value. I also attempted to change my expression to instead use labelFontSize as a string:

a.expression = '"%s" + [Name] + "%s"' %  ("<BOL><FNT name='Arial' size=str(labelFontSize)>","</FNT></BOL>")

However, for some reason, the label either doesn't appear at all or it shows the actual expression text as my label. The issue I am having with is obviously within the expression part of my code.

However, how do I apply my labelFontSize variable into this expression?

Am I going the correct route with this or is there an easier way to do this?

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It looks like you are placing your variable labelFontSize inside a string? I would have thought this line:

a.expression = '"%s" + [Name] + "%s"' %  ("<BOL><FNT name='Arial' size='labelFontSize'>","</FNT></BOL>")

would have been something like (I've not tested this!):

a.expression = '"%s" + [Name] + "%s"' %  ("<BOL><FNT name='Arial' size='" + str(labelFontSize) + "'>","</FNT></BOL>")
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  • You're absolutely right! That actually seems to resolve the issue. Thanks much, I appreciate it. Is there any reason why you have a single quote followed by a double quote when inputting labelFontSize? As in, the code is essentially: ' "labelFontSize" '
    – coolDude
    Sep 30, 2014 at 23:07

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