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How Can I Close an mxd using arcpy script

OLANIYANOLAKUNLE

How Can I Close an mxd using arcpy script. Thanks

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EdMorris

I have just blogged on this >>

Using Python to close an ArcMap map document down | Spatial Needs....

This will show you how to close an MXD down by name....

thanks ed

OLANIYANOLAKUNLE

Thanks! I got it

RichardFairhurst

This will kill ArcMap itself.
import os
os.system("TASKKILL /F /IM ArcMap.exe") 

I stand corrected.

BruceBacia

Also you can open a specific mxd like this:

import os
os.startfile("Your MXD Path")

BruceBacia

This will kill ArcMap itself.

import os
os.system("TASKKILL /F /IM ArcMap.exe")

RichardFairhurst

How Can I Close an mxd using arcpy script. Thanks

Python is still more of a geoprocessing oriented language is GIS than a full blown windows application management language. The arcpy options only let you save or saveacopy of the document, but there is no close option. I haven't seen any native Python that manages open Wndows applications. Perhaps there is an extension someone has written that I am unaware of, but the python.org help does not come up with anything I can find.

I think you are expecting more out of Python than ESRI has tried to support at this time.

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