data driven pages - check if true - arcpy

[PeterMacKenzie1]

is there any code to check if an mxd has data driven pages activated?

e.g.

if datadrivenpages = true
   then xx
else
yy

[XanderBakker · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

In fact there is (at least in 10.1 and 10.2, I didn't check older versions). The arcpy.mapping.MapDocument has a property "isDDPEnabled":

    import arcpy     myMXD = r'C:\Project\_LearnPython\DDPwelaan.mxd'     mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(myMXD)     if mxd.isDDPEnabled:         # do something with Data Driven Pages         pass     else:         # do something else here         pass

Links:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s30000000n000000
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s30000000n000000
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/DataDrivenPages/00s300000030000000/

[PeterMacKenzie1]

Great, that worked. Thankyou!

[XanderBakker]

Hi Peter,

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