topic how to close "Current" Map Document? in Mapping Questions

how to close "Current" Map Document?

CosminTana — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:44:52 GMT

How can I close a map document via python?
I want to run a script which references the map document

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current")
...
do_some_stuff()
....
mxd.saveACopy(r"C:\xx\yy\zz.mxd")
os.startfile(r"C:\xx\yy\zz.mxd")

and now i would like to close the "old" mxd???

The only thing I found to work is:
os._exit()

but this kind of kills ArcMap too brutal...
e.g. ArcSOCP.exe and ArcSOMP.exe won't close (for the next 10 min..)
is there anything like:
mxd.close() ????
or a better closing method?

Sure, it is just one click to exit Arcmap. It is not extremely important, but nevertheless I would like to enforce closing the mapDocument in my script (in a proper way)...

Re: how to close "Current" Map Document?

EricAubert — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:57:30 GMT

Cosmin,

I'm assuming that you are running your script though the ArcPy window, am I correct? If so, why not using IDLE or PythonWin instead? That way you would not need to open up an ArcMap session to do what you need to do, you would just refer to your map document object instead:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(<mxd path>)

Your issue description does not tell me why you need to "close" ArcMap. If you could elaborate then I might be able to help.

Re: how to close "Current" Map Document?

Venkata_RaoTammineni — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:01:28 GMT

Application.shutdown

Re: how to close "Current" Map Document?

CosminTana — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:29:16 GMT

I wrote my script in pythonwin and appended it to a toolbox...
For the future I want to make my script flexible. That means,
I want to be able to call it from ArcCatalog (the preferred method) but also from ArcMap.

If I call it from ArcMap, I want to close exactly that ArcMap session which called the script.
There is a reason for this, but back to the problem.

So far os._exit() is the only thing which works, but not optimal...
And
os.system('taskkill /IM Arcmap*')
would close the ArcMap session the correct way- but unfortunately it will close all open ArcMap sessions.

Application.shutdown <-- Couldn't find anything on this in combination with Python...
Can your write the correct syntax maybe?

Re: how to close "Current" Map Document?

Venkata_RaoTammineni — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:36:10 GMT

hi,

Application.shutdown is vba code syntax...I dont know Python....

Thanks and Regards,

Venkat

Re: how to close "Current" Map Document?

EricMahaffey — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:47:02 GMT

Thanks Cosmin,

The os.system('taskkill /IM Arcmap*') was what I needed.