Calculating field from three conditional statements

Question

I am working on a road dataset and would like to calculate a field(speed) using three conditional statements from two fields:

1. formOfWay: with value, Dual carriageway etc.
2. routeHierarchy: with values A Road, A Road Primary etc.

My aim is to return a speed value of 65 where formOfWay is Dual Carriageway AND Route Hierarchy is either A Road or A Road Primary.

Using the code provided in a similar question asked, I have tried the code below in ArcGIS Field Calculator, but haven’t been unsuccessful. The error message returned point to a syntax error in line 2 and I suspect this should be the part of the code having the two ‘routeHierarchy’ values (A Road and A Road Primary). The code works with one coded value for routeHierarchy but returns an error when the second value is added.

def ifBlock(routeHierarchy, formOfWay):
    if routeHierarchy == ['A Road','A Road Primary'] and formOfWay == 'Dual Carriageway':
        return 65
    else:
        return 30

Please, can someone point out the correction I can apply to make this work?

Answer 1

You need either:

def ifBlock(routeHierarchy, formOfWay):
    if (routeHierarchy == 'A Road' or routeHierarchy == 'A Road Primary') and formOfWay == 'Dual Carriageway':
        return 65
    else:
        return 30

or

def ifBlock(routeHierarchy, formOfWay):
    if routeHierarchy in ('A Road','A Road Primary') and formOfWay == 'Dual Carriageway':
        return 65
    else:
        return 30