topic Re: Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks in Python Questions

Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

DannyLackey — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:30:01 GMT

2 part question:

1. Trying to output a series of specific bookmarks to a pdf. I can do it with all bookmarks

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):

or 1 specific bookmark

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"Bookmark1",df):

, but how do I get multiple specific bookmarks? I can't get the syntax right.

Something like

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"],df):

(doesn't work, though)

Re: Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

MichaelVolz — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:00:29 GMT

The parameter you are changing appears to be a filter. It seems that you would have to have something in common in the name of the bookmarks you want to use if you only want a subset.

If you have bookmarks with names City_LA, City_NY, and State_NM, you could have the filter of City and you would get the first 2 bookmarks. I think this is how the wildcard parameter works and you cannot use a list like in your example. If the bookmark names have nothing in common, I believe you are out of luck.

Re: Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

DannyLackey — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:14:33 GMT

That's unfortunate....

I'll try to find another solution. thx

Re: Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

XanderBakker — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:34:40 GMT

Hi Danny,

Suppose when I use the following code:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    print bkmk.name

I get this result:

Total
Bookmark1
Bookmark2
Bookmark3

If you can use an extra line of code, you could do it like this:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]:
        print bkmk.name

results in:

Bookmark1
Bookmark3

If it has to be on one line, you could use some list comprehension:

for bkmk in [bkmk for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df) if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]]:
    print bkmk.name

Kind regards,

Xander

Re: Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

DannyLackey — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:34:42 GMT

Hi Danny,

Suppose when I use the following code:
for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    print bkmk.name
I get this result:

Total
Bookmark1
Bookmark2
Bookmark3

If you can use an extra line of code, you could do it like this:
for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]:
        print bkmk.name
results in:

Bookmark1
Bookmark3

If it has to be on one line, you could use some list comprehension:
for bkmk in [bkmk for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df) if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]]:
    print bkmk.name
Kind regards,

Xander

This might be the solution I've been looking for. I'll give it a shot and report back. Thank you!

EDIT: Yes, this worked like a charm. Thank you!