InsertCursor fails when trying to insert XY point data

Question

I have a text file with X and Y coordinates, as well as a third piece of information. I'm trying to create a point feature class from this text file by use of an insert cursor. I'm working with "SHAPE@XY" token, but can't figure out the exact syntax. What am I doing wrong?

Pertinent code:

#Open text file
textFile = open (inFile, "r")

#Get X, Y, and PGA
lines = [r.split (" ")[0:3] for r in textFile]

#Spatial reference
SR = SpatialReference ("WGS 1984")

#Create point feature class
CreateFeatureclass_management (outPath, outName, "POINT", spatial_reference = SR)

#Add PGA field
AddField_management (outFc, "PGA", "FLOAT")

#Create insert cursor object
cursor = InsertCursor (outFc, ["SHAPE@XY", "PGA"])

for X, Y, PGA in lines:
    #XY tuple
    XY = (float(X), float(Y))

    #Create row tuple
    row = (XY, float(PGA))

    print row
    #Insert row
    cursor.insertRow (row)

The first line prints as I would expect:

((-123.224, 38.4105), 0.02)

But the next line throws the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/e1b8/Desktop/E1B8/DASH_GIS_Integration/Calculate_PGA_per_plat_Point.py", line 277, in textToFeatureClass
    cursor.insertRow (row)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\arcobjects\arcobjects.py", line 106, in insertRow
    return convertArcObjectToPythonObject(self._arc_object.InsertRow(*gp_fixargs(args)))
RuntimeError: Error in InsertRow

Three sample lines from the text file:

-123.2240 38.4105 0.02 0.01 1
-123.2157 38.4105 0.02 0.01 1
-123.2073 38.4105 0.02 0.01 1

Answer 1

Since I used from arcpy import * (not shown), the line:

cursor = InsertCursor (outFc, ["SHAPE@XY", "PGA"])

...was calling the older version of InsertCursor.

The proper code is:

cursor = da.InsertCursor (outFc, ["SHAPE@XY", "PGA"])

This line calls the data access InsertCursor.