AddMessage (arcpy)

Summary

Creates a geoprocessing informative message (Severity=0) that can be accessed with any of the GetMessages functions.

Syntax

AddMessage (message)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
message	The message to add.	String

Code Sample

AddMessage example

Add custom informative message to the Python script tool.

import arcpy

fc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

# Get the count from GetCount's Result object
feature_count = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(fc).getOutput(0))

if feature_count == 0:
    arcpy.AddError("{0} has no features.".format(fc))
else:
    arcpy.AddMessage("{0} has {1} features.".format(fc, feature_count))