Working with Multi Line Texts in Arcpy

JonathanMulder

Greetings,

I want to automate printing out eight maps. In essence, I've got 4 Bookmarks of counties, and layers dealing with deep wells and layers dealing with shallow wells.

Each map will have a three-line Title that changes for each map. For example:

BUTTE COUNTY DOMESTIC WELL DEPTH SUMMARY
with Depth to Groundwater Contours for Wells Screened
at Depths Less Than 150 Feet

QUESTION -- How do I deal with a multi-line string in Python? I've seen some regerences to triple quotes but don't really understand.

Thanks!

JoshuaChisholm

Hello Jon,

A few things to note. You can use triple quotes (single or double) to handle multiple lines in python:

title="""BUTTE COUNTY DOMESTIC WELL DEPTH SUMMARY
with Depth to Groundwater Contours for Wells Screened
at Depths Less Than 150 Feet"""

If you prefer you can also use "\n" which is the code for line break:

title="BUTTE COUNTY DOMESTIC WELL DEPTH SUMMARY\nwith Depth to Groundwater Contours for Wells Screened\nat Depths Less Than 150 Feet"

Also by the nature of your project, I'd seriously suggest using data driven pages. You can use your counties to drive your maps (use a Definition Query if you only want to map certain counties). You can even have the county name appear as part of your title by adding a text box in your layout like this:

<dyn type="page" property="attribute" field="CountyName" domainlookup="true"/>COUNTY DOMESTIC WELL DEPTH SUMMARY
with Depth to Groundwater Contours for Wells Screened
at Depths Less Than 150 Feet

[INDENT]Change "CountyName" to the name of the field containing names.[/INDENT]


Good luck! Let me know how it goes!
~Josh