isServiceLayer layer property seems to ignore feature services

Question

To do some advanced web map printing, I used the python script in the "Basic web map printing/exporting using arcpy.mapping" tutorial.  In the python script, there is a block of code to remove all layers in the map that are service layers:

for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, data_frame=df):
    if lyr.isServiceLayer:
        arcpy.mapping.RemoveLayer(df, lyr)

This mostly works, but I am finding that it does not seem to remove services that are feature services.  Is there any reason for this?  How can I get it to remove all services from the map, including feature services?

Thanks.

TomFlahive · Answer

We are using ArcGIS 10.3.

As a work-around I am using the isRasterizingLayer property to remove the service layers that are not being removed by the isServiceLayer block above, but it seems a bit of a hack.

JoshuaBixby · Answer

What version of ArcGIS are you using?  I ask because there were some changes, I would argue bugs, with how serviceProperties behave differently in ArcGIS 10.3 than ArcGIS 10.2.2.  Not sure if that could affect isServiceLayer as well or not.