I find update cursor to be faster than calculate field in most operations.Example rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(layer) for row in rows: row.values = 1 rows.updateRow(row) For more detail seehttp://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000v0000003m000000 Reply 0 Kudos ...
First I have edited the code to stop and start an edit operation before moving from the insert cursor to the update cursor. Also, I had to add statements to delete the cursors. You should stop Python entirely and reboot to clear all of the InsertCursors your code runs may ...