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Having trouble getting my code to work. Keep getting IOError that my parks.shp doesn't exist....not sure I understand what this is saying.

import arcpy

mxd = "D:\...\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd"

mapdoc = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxd)

dataset = "D:\...\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd\parks.shp"

spatialref = arcpy.Describe(dataset).spatialReference

extent = arcpy.Describe(dataset).extent

for df in arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mapdoc):

      df.spatialReference = spatialref
      df.panToExtent()
      df.scale = 15000
      print "\nData frame " + df.name + " contains the following layers:"
      lyrlist = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mapdoc, "", "", df)
      for lyr in lyrlist:
          print lyr.names 
mapdoc.save() 
del mapdoc

Full error message:

File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\Lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 325, in RunScript exec codeObject in main.dict File "D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Scripts\Mod3_Script2_Template (2).py", line 12, in spatialref = arcpy.Describe(dataset).spatialReference File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\arcpy\arcpy__init__.py", line 1234, in Describe return gp.describe(value) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 374, in describe self._gp.Describe(*gp_fixargs(args, True))) IOError: "D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Data\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd\parks.shp" does not exist

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  • Please review the code, since the last line seems mashed up
    – Vince
    Jul 19, 2016 at 14:49
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    Your problem is likely the failure to either escape backslashes or to use "raw" mode (prepend an 'r' before the quote). So Python is correct -- the file "\...\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd\parks.shp" does not exist in directory "D:"
    – Vince
    Jul 19, 2016 at 14:52
  • Code blocks must have FOUR leading spaces. There's a {} button to format it for you.
    – Vince
    Jul 19, 2016 at 14:53
  • I tried the use r"D......shp" as well. No luck. The full error message is to follow.
    – Petunia311
    Jul 19, 2016 at 14:56
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    Thank you for including the full error. Now look at what it says. An MXD is a file. No shapefile will be inside it as if it were a directory.
    – Vince
    Jul 19, 2016 at 15:01

2 Answers 2

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LOTS OF ERRORS were fixed --.spatialRefernce (no good) .extent(no good), lyrlist, had too many arguments--FIXED

import arcpy
mxd = r"D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Data\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd"
mapdoc = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxd)
dataset = r"D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Data\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd"
spatialref = arcpy.Describe(dataset)
extent = arcpy.Describe(dataset)        df.scale = 15000
    print "\nData frame " + df.name + " contains the following layers:"
    lyrlist = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mapdoc, "", df)
for lyr in lyrlist:
    print lyr.name
for df in arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mapdoc):
    df.panToExtent(df.extent)

mapdoc.save()
del mapdoc
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Locate your shapefile.

The error message says it's in:

"D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Data\TravisCountyAustinTxx.mxd\parks.shp"

The .MXD can't be a folder, so it's definitely not there.

Perhaps it's in the same folder as the MXD:

dataset = r"D:\CLASSES\Debugging_andErrorHandlingLab\Data\parks.shp"

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