split a grid into its tiles with tried codes

[babakkasraie]

Hello

I have a grid shapefile that contains 10 polygon squares.

I need to select each tile (which is a row in the attribute table) and make a separate shapefile. It means I need to create 10 separate shpefiles from the grid.

How can I make a loop to go through rows and select each row and make a polygon shapefile out of it?

I tried the following codes unsuccessfully.

Thanks for help.

# Import arcpy module
import arcpy

# Local variables: This is the Grid
Mapsheet_grid_50K = "Mapsheet_grid_50K"

# The following loop is supposed to go through rows
rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(Mapsheet_grid_50K)
row = rows.next()
while row:
  Expression = "\"FID\" = row" #This expression is used is the following select method
  arcpy.Select_analysis(Mapsheet_grid_50K, Mapsheet_grid_50K_Select_shp, row)# This select method will select each tiles
  # This is a separated single tile
  Mapsheet_grid_50K_Select_row_shp = "F:\\Canada_DSM_ForTestOnly\\PersonalData&Maps\\map_Tiles\\Mapsheet_grid_50K_Select."+row+".shp"
del row
del rows

[Larz60+]

seems to be fairly explained here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/...ing-python

[babakkasraie]

Thanks, I will try to learn from it