topic Re: Using extents in python in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-extents-in-python/m-p/65169#M5366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am also experiencing "locking" issues with this script at 10.1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wrote this script for 10.0 and am using a FGDB to store temporary files for the MXD.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have turned on the overwrite outputs for geoproccessing, but still get errors saying that these layers are locked.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:23:33 GMT ChadFoster 2012-08-28T20:23:33Z Using extents in python https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-extents-in-python/m-p/65168#M5365 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I had a python script in ArcGIS 10, Python 2.6 that would get the extent of selected features and then zoom out from that exent.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In ArcGIS 10.1, Python 2.7 my script crashes at that point.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(layer1, "NEW_SELECTION") df.extent = layer1.getSelectedExtent(True) arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(layer1,"CLEAR_SELECTION") df.scale = df.scale * 1.4</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Chad</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:16:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-extents-in-python/m-p/65168#M5365 ChadFoster 2012-08-21T14:16:23Z Re: Using extents in python https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-extents-in-python/m-p/65169#M5366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am also experiencing "locking" issues with this script at 10.1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wrote this script for 10.0 and am using a FGDB to store temporary files for the MXD.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have turned on the overwrite outputs for geoproccessing, but still get errors saying that these layers are locked.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:23:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-extents-in-python/m-p/65169#M5366 ChadFoster 2012-08-28T20:23:33Z