Adding values from list into Attribute with UpdateCursor?

Question

I have a list of values of buildings total height and want to update the corresponding field in the shapefile.

fclass is my shapefile totalh is the field which i want to update totaheight is a list with height values for each building in the shapefile (same order)

This is what I am trying:

i = 0
with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fclass,"totalh") as updatecursor:
 for row in updatecursor:
 row[i] = total_height[i]
 updatecursor.UpdateRow(row)
 i = i+1

The error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:/wspace2/bheights.py", line 45, in <module>
 updatecursor.UpdateRow(row)
AttributeError: 'da.UpdateCursor' object has no attribute 'UpdateRow'

• Vince: row[n] refers to column 'n' in the row, so you're about to have a problem once you fix the capitalization.

Answer 1

Change

updatecursor.UpdateRow(row) 

to

updatecursor.updateRow(row)

The U is lowercase.

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/updatecursor-class.htm

Also, check the following statement:

row[i] = total_height[i]

this should probably be

row[0] = total_height[i]

since you want to reference and update the first attribute in the shape file