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I am creating a new layer out of an old one with MakeFeatureLayer_management like this:

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management("layername", "newlayername", "DEPTH = 1200")

This works for the first time but if I want to execute the function on the same layer again (with a new out_layer and a different where clause) like this:

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management("layername", "secondlayername", "DEPTH = 1400")

I get

Runtime error Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\management.py", line 5774, in MakeFeatureLayer
raise e ExecuteError: ERROR 000622: Failed to execute (Make Feature Layer). Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000628: Cannot set input into parameter in_features.

Also the auto completion for in_features no longer shows the used layer.

What can I do to fix this?

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Based on the edits to your original question, try something like this:

import arcpy

input = "featureclass or shapefile"

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(input, "newlayer", "query")
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(input, "newlayer2", "query")

Make the input to the MakeFeatureLayer management tool the dataset rather than a layer created from the dataset.

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  • I'm sorry I seem to have not phrased my question good enough: I want to create multiple new layers out of the original layer. Each layer will only have one where clause though. The problem is that for the second execution (with a different where clause but the same input layer) the input layer is no longer accesible
    – k-nut
    Dec 12, 2014 at 14:05
  • I edited the question to hopefully make this a little clearer
    – k-nut
    Dec 12, 2014 at 14:07
  • making the input a featureclass instead of a layer created from the dataset seems to have solved the problem. Thank you!
    – k-nut
    Dec 16, 2014 at 12:26

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