Getting minimum latitude of centroid geometries in a folder using ArcPy

Question

My goal is to print names of feature classes and corresponding minimum latitude of centroids of geometry for all shapefiles in a folder. In total I have 5 shapefiles and I'm trying to loop through them.

import arcpy
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True

arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Users\username\dataset_folder"

for z in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses():
    print(z)

I am able to print the names of these shapefiles but don't know how to get minimum latitude of centroids of geometry.

What ArcPy tool should I use to get these minimum latitude of centroids of geometries?

Answer 1

This might work (untested):

arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Users\username\dataset_folder"

for fc in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses():
    minLatitude = min(arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, "SHAPE@Y"))
    print("{}: {}".format(fc, minLatitude))

(Updated to include PaulH's suggested modification/simplification.)