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I want to calculate the mean value in the field z which has Type Zero and write it in Ground field.

How can I do that with arcpy?

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arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(Shapefile, "layer")
arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management("layer", "NEW_SELECTION","Type = 0")
arcpy.CalculateField_management("layer", "Ground", "mean(!{0}!)".format("Z"), "PYTHON_9.3")

I have got error for this code.

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In this example, a Search Cursor is used within a list comprehension to collect all of the Z values if Type == 0. np.mean() is used to find the mean value within the list.

Once the mean value is determined, use an Update Cursor to write the mean value to the Ground field if Type == 0.

import arcpy
import numpy as np

fc = r'C:\temp\temp.gdb\some_featureclass'

# Find the mean value for the "Z" field if "Z" == 0
val = np.mean([x[0] for x in arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, ("Z", "Type")) if x[1] == 0])

# Write the value to the "Ground" field if "Type" == 0
with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fc, ["Type", "Ground"]) as cursor:
    for row in cursor:
        if row[0] == 0:
            row[1] = val
        cursor.updateRow(row) 

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Your approach won't work, as you are trying to apply a mean over a set of selected records to a each of the selected rows. but you need to have computed the mean prior to this calculation. A better way is to run your data through the Summary statistics tool grouping by your type field. You can then join the resulting table to your original layer.

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