Performing IDW for multiple Z field from attribute using ArcPy?

Question

I have data with multiple columns as 1996_1, 1997_1, etc. I need to perform IDW for each column values and save it. I am a beginner with arcpy. Please help! The code is as follows:

import arcpy, os

from arcpy import env

from arcpy.sa import *

arcpy.env.parallelProcessingFactor = "100%"

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True

env.workspace = "F:\Python\Arcpy"

inPointFeatures = "F:\Python\Arcpy\fluctpnt_UTM.shp"

zfield = ["1996_1","1997_1"]

for z in zfield:

    outIDW_1 = Idw(inPointFeatures, zfield,0.002298707671,2,RadiusVariable(10,15000))
    outIDW_1.save("004_{}.tif".format(z))

but i get this error as follows:

Runtime error 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
  File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\arcpy\arcpy\sa\Functions.py", line 2632, in Idw
    in_barrier_polyline_features)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\arcpy\arcpy\sa\Utils.py", line 53, in swapper
    result = wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\arcpy\arcpy\sa\Functions.py", line 2624, in Wrapper
    in_barrier_polyline_features)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.4\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 506, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args: val(*gp_fixargs(args, True))
RuntimeError: Object: Error in executing tool

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Answer 1

I guess the problem might be that these lines:

for z in zfield:

    outIDW_1 = Idw(inPointFeatures, zfield,0.002298707671,2,RadiusVariable(10,15000))
    outIDW_1.save("004_{}.tif".format(z))

should look like these lines:

for z in zfield:

    outIDW_1 = Idw(inPointFeatures, z,0.002298707671,2,RadiusVariable(10,15000))
    outIDW_1.save("004_{}.tif".format(z))

You need to replace variable z_field with z within your loop, otherwise you are using a list of field names (["1996_1","1997_1"]) as input to the IDW z_field parameter.

Also, I would change the name of your output raster to avoid numbers at first place, as suggested in the Output raster formats and names:

It is generally recommended that you have the first letter of a raster name be a character instead of a number or symbol.