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If I understand this correctly, you are building a map series where each page has 2 extents that represent different segments along a strip map.  For example, one extent is all the odd numbered strip map extents and the other extent represents the even extents. I had done this for a customer a while back.  My strategy was to use two MXDs.  Below is the code I wrote. I'm using the DDP extent for each page from the DDP1.mxd to drive the extents in the NoDDP.mxd. import arcpy, os path = os.getcwd()  mxd1 = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(path + r"\DDP1.mxd")  #DDP enabled MXD mxd1df1 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd1, "Top")[0]    #Reference the DF that DDP is based on  mxd2 = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(path + r"\NoDDP.mxd")  #DDP is not enabled  mxd2df1 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd2, "Top")[0]      #Top panel mxd2df2 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd2, "Bottom")[0]  #Bottom panel mxd2panelAtxt = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd2, "TEXT_ELEMENT", "PanelA")[0] mxd2panelBtxt = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd2, "TEXT_ELEMENT", "PanelB")[0] mxd2pages = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd2, "TEXT_ELEMENT", "pages")[0]  if os.path.exists(path + "\MapBook.pdf"):   os.remove(path + "\MapBook.pdf") pdfDoc = arcpy.mapping.PDFDocumentCreate(path + "\MapBook.pdf")  totalPageCount = mxd1.dataDrivenPages.pageCount   #get the total pages from DDP1.mxd (and use those extents on the NoDDP.mxd page = 1  while page <= totalPageCount:   mxd1.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = page   #this will be all odd pages (get the extent info)   panelAExt = mxd1df1.extent   panelARot = mxd1df1.rotation   panelAtxt = mxd1.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.Name     page = page + 1                                            #iterate the page number   mxd1.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = page  #this will be all even pages   panelBExt = mxd1df1.extent   panelBRot = mxd1df1.rotation   panelBtxt = mxd1.dataDrivenPages.pageRow.Name   page = page + 1   if page > totalPageCount + 2:     break   mxd2df1.extent = panelAExt     #Now update the NoDDP mxd based on extents preserved from DDP1.mxd   mxd2df1.scale = 2400   mxd2df1.rotation = panelARot   mxd2panelAtxt.text = panelAtxt   mxd2df2.extent = panelBExt      #Do it again for the second panel   mxd2df2.scale = 2400   mxd2df2.rotation = panelBRot   mxd2panelBtxt.text = panelBtxt   mxd2pages.text = "Page " + str(page/2) + " of " + str(totalPageCount/2)   arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd2, path + r"\Sheet" + str(page-2) + ".pdf")   pdfDoc.appendPages(path + r"\Sheet" + str(page-2) + ".pdf")   os.remove(path + r"\Sheet" + str(page-2) + ".pdf")  pdfDoc.saveAndClose() del mxd1, mxd2, pdfDoc ... View more

Thank-you for reporting this.  We already had corrected it for 10.1 but will get it into the 10.0 web help. Jeff ... View more