Annelies,Great idea for a sample, and good timing...I just wrote a script that will do this:import arcpy, os
# The map with the bookmarks
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\BookmarksToFeatures.mxd")
# The output feature class to be created -
# This feature class will store the bookmarks as features
outFC = r'C:\Project\BookmarkFeatures.gdb\Bookmarks'
# A template feature class that contains the attribute schema
# E.g. a "name" field to store the bookmark name
template = r'C:\Project\BookmarkFeatures.gdb\Template'
if arcpy.Exists(outFC):
arcpy.Delete_management(outFC)
arcpy.CreateFeatureclass_management(os.path.dirname(outFC),
os.path.basename(outFC),
"POLYGON", template,
spatial_reference=template)
cur = arcpy.da.InsertCursor(outFC, ["SHAPE@", "Name"])
array = arcpy.Array()
for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd):
array.add(arcpy.Point(bkmk.extent.XMin, bkmk.extent.YMin))
array.add(arcpy.Point(bkmk.extent.XMin, bkmk.extent.YMax))
array.add(arcpy.Point(bkmk.extent.XMax, bkmk.extent.YMax))
array.add(arcpy.Point(bkmk.extent.XMax, bkmk.extent.YMin))
# To close the polygon, add the first point again
array.add(arcpy.Point(bkmk.extent.XMin, bkmk.extent.YMin))
cur.insertRow([arcpy.Polygon(array), bkmk.name])
array.removeAll()
