Saving selected features as new layer using ArcPy

Question

How can I save selected features to a new feature class?

If I do one of the following commands always all of the features are copied, and not just the selcted ones.

## First select features
arcpy.management.SelectLayerByLocation(input, "INTERSECT", intersecting_features, None, "NEW_SELECTION", "NOT_INVERT")

## then try one of these to save as new features
new_copy = arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(input, output)

or

new_copy = arcpy.management.Copy(input, output, "FeatureClass", None)

As I mentioned, always all of the features are copied.

Answer 1

You can try to save the result of the selection in a variable and then copy the value in the variable.

sel = arcpy.management.SelectLayerByLocation(input, "INTERSECT", intersecting_features, None, "NEW_SELECTION", "NOT_INVERT")


new_copy = arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(sel, output)