Removing ZM From Geometry Column Polygon Using ArcPy?

Question

Using ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop, I have some Shapefiles which I have no idea why their Geometry column (shape) contain ZM! now I need to remove all those ZM and get a clean polygon instead.

I thought I can use the FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion() but not sure how to disabled both Output has Z Values and Output has M Values through following ArcPy

# Import system modules
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
# Set environment settings
env.workspace = "C:/data"
# Set local variables
inFeature = ["climate.shp"]
outLocation = "C:/output"
arcpy.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion(inFeatures, outLocation) 

• FelixIP: Set environment variable Z and M to disabled
• Suffii: Thanks FelixIP, this is exactly my questing! how can I do it? I didn't find any thing on ArcGIS Online Help, I know this is doable trough ArcToolbox but how in ArcPy?

Answer 1

Try this:

arcpy.env.outputZFlag = "Disabled" 
arcpy.env.outputMFlag = "Disabled" 

Resources can be found here Z and M

• Hornbydd: It's also worth mentioning that the only way you can find out which environment settings a tool honors is to look at the Help file for a particular tool. There is a section on every tools help page called Environment listing which ones it honors.