How to to get current legend column count using arcpy?

[SurendranNeelakantan]

Hi

Is there anyway to get current legend column count using arcpy? like legegend.columncount   OR legend.getcolumncount ? I couldn't see these properties in documentation.

I am trying to increment  column count conditionally using  legend.adjustColumnCount

Thank you

[LukeSturtevant]

If I'm understanding your question you are looking to get a total count of layers represented in the legend? If so then you could use:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current")
df = mxd.activeDataFrame
legendCount = len(arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, "LEGEND_ELEMENT", "Legend")[0].items)

[SurendranNeelakantan]

I   want to know how many columns in the  legend element.  Not how many items in the legend.

I hope It is clear now.

[DarrenWiens2]

Can you explain why incrementing adjustColumnCount doesn't work? It seems like you should be able to:

1.) make any changes to your legend

2.) record the current (original) legend elementWidth

3.) increment the number of columns using adjustColumnCount

4.) when the incremented legend elementWidth = the original legend elementWidth, you know the number of columns

[WesMiller]

The default for column count is 1 if your trying to increment a legend simply start or reset the legend to 1

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