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Specific bookmarks for arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks

Discussion created by Drivium on Feb 27, 2014
Latest reply on Mar 3, 2014 by Drivium

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2 part question:

1. Trying to output a series of specific bookmarks to a pdf. I can do it with all bookmarks

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):

or 1 specific bookmark

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"Bookmark1",df):

, but how do I get multiple specific bookmarks? I can't get the syntax right.

Something like

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"],df):

(doesn't work, though)

Outcomes

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mvolz47 Feb 27, 2014 2:00 PM
The parameter you are changing appears to be a filter. It seems that you would have to have something in common in the name of the bookmarks you want to use if you only want a subset.

If you have bookmarks with names City_LA, City_NY, and State_NM, you could have the filter of City and you would get the first 2 bookmarks. I think this is how the wildcard parameter works and you cannot use a list like in your example. If the bookmark names have nothing in common, I believe you are out of luck.
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Drivium Feb 27, 2014 2:14 PM
That's unfortunate....

I'll try to find another solution. thx
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xander_bakker Feb 28, 2014 1:43 AM

Hi Danny,

Suppose when I use the following code:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    print bkmk.name

I get this result:

Total
Bookmark1
Bookmark2
Bookmark3

If you can use an extra line of code, you could do it like this:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):
    if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]:
        print bkmk.name

results in:

Bookmark1
Bookmark3

If it has to be on one line, you could use some list comprehension:

for bkmk in [bkmk for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df) if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]]:
    print bkmk.name

Kind regards,

Xander

Drivium Mar 3, 2014 4:59 AM
Hi Danny,

Suppose when I use the following code:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):     print bkmk.name

I get this result:

Total
Bookmark1
Bookmark2
Bookmark3

If you can use an extra line of code, you could do it like this:

for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df):     if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]:         print bkmk.name

results in:

Bookmark1
Bookmark3

If it has to be on one line, you could use some list comprehension:

for bkmk in [bkmk for bkmk in arcpy.mapping.ListBookmarks(mxd,"*",df) if bkmk.name in ["Bookmark1","Bookmark3"]]:     print bkmk.name

Kind regards,

Xander
This might be the solution I've been looking for. I'll give it a shot and report back. Thank you!

EDIT: Yes, this worked like a charm. Thank you!
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