topic arcpy.mapping: Determine if nothing is selected in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-mapping-determine-if-nothing-is-selected/m-p/144088#M11176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I just need to be able to determine if nothing is selected.&nbsp; SearchCusors and GetCount_management only return either just the selected features or all of the features.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>...pretty sure I am missing the obvious here.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 19:01:30 GMT JamesCrandall 2013-05-07T19:01:30Z arcpy.mapping: Determine if nothing is selected https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-mapping-determine-if-nothing-is-selected/m-p/144088#M11176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I just need to be able to determine if nothing is selected.&nbsp; SearchCusors and GetCount_management only return either just the selected features or all of the features.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>...pretty sure I am missing the obvious here.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 19:01:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-mapping-determine-if-nothing-is-selected/m-p/144088#M11176 JamesCrandall 2013-05-07T19:01:30Z Re: arcpy.mapping: Determine if nothing is selected https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-mapping-determine-if-nothing-is-selected/m-p/144089#M11177 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>...huh.&nbsp; Seems like a get this great "GetCount" thingie, then I am expecting a similar method for zero selected features -- guess not.&nbsp; This works but...&nbsp; well, it works. (solution found 4 pages deep on a Google search!)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">&nbsp; for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dsc = arcpy.Describe(lyr) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sel_set = dsc.FIDSet &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if len(sel_set) == 0: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "Nothing selected" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'do all the stuff </PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 19:16:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-mapping-determine-if-nothing-is-selected/m-p/144089#M11177 JamesCrandall 2013-05-07T19:16:07Z