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arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000223: Cannot extract event table properties Failed to execute (MakeXYEventLayer)

According to documentation, spatial reference argument should be a SpatialReference object. It also accepts some string type of spatial reference. But it may not accept wkt string of spatial reference ...
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ArcGIS Error: ERROR 000223: Cannot extract event table properties while trying to create an event layer using ArcPy

You will not be able to go directly from a dbf to a shp with that tool. The tool creates a feature layer as its output which is temporary, you then have to call a CopyFeatures to save the output as a ...
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arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000223: Cannot extract event table properties Failed to execute (MakeXYEventLayer)

Finally after struggling with code and debugging more than 100 times and talk to ESRI support I am able to resolve this issue, which is a bug listed in Esri BUG-000126550. This bug is not in XY event ...
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