topic Re: code for checking whether data driven pages enabled in Python Questions

code for checking whether data driven pages enabled

ErinIverson — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:48:17 GMT

Is there a means of checking, in Python, whether data driven pages are enabled in a particular MXD?

All the code and help I can find seems to imply this verification must take place manually, and if I call

mxd.dataDrivenPages

for a map document object that doesn't have DDP, I get an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\arcpy\arcpy\arcobjects\mixins.py", line 447, in dataDrivenPages
    return convertArcObjectToPythonObject(self._arc_object.pageLayout.dataDrivenPages)
AttributeError: PageLayoutObject: Get attribute dataDrivenPages does not exist

Re: code for checking whether data driven pages enabled

StevenArebalo — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:43:34 GMT

Maybe creating a try that catches the specific AttributeError and informs the user? It really isn't checking for DDP enabled, but will provide the same end result.

Re: code for checking whether data driven pages enabled

JasonScheirer — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:36:46 GMT

Use either

if mxd.supports("dataDrivenPages"):

if hasattr(mxd, "dataDrivenPages"):

Re: code for checking whether data driven pages enabled

JonPedder — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:11:07 GMT

Is it still the case that there isn't a way to turn DDP on/off within Python?

Re: code for checking whether data driven pages enabled

AdhimoolamD — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:32:18 GMT

Hi

yes, the below code is working fine to check whether the DDP enabled in the MXD.
But the DDP can be enabled with only one Map Dataframe. in otherway, if the MXD have more than one Dataframe, then let me know the DDP enabled to which dataframe.

import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Projects\Untitled_new.mxd")
if hasattr(mxd, "dataDrivenPages"):
print "yes"
else :
print "No"