AddWarning (arcpy)

Summary

Creates a geoprocessing warning message (Severity=1) that can be accessed by any of the GetMessages functions.

Syntax

AddWarning (message)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
message	The message to add.	String

Code Sample

AddWarning example

Add custom warning message to a 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.AddWarning("{0} has no features.".format(fc))
else:
    arcpy.AddMessage("{0} has {1} features.".format(fc, feature_count))