Zooming in to selected features
Creating selection sets in ArcMap is a common task. Selection sets are often created as the result of an attribute or spatial query, but they can also occur when a user manually selects features and sometimes, under some additional circumstances. To better visualize selection sets, users often zoom to the extent of the selected feature. This can be accomplished programmatically with Python in several ways. In this recipe, you will learn how to zoom to all the selected features in a data frame as well as an individual layer.
Getting ready
The DataFrame.zoomToSelectedFeatures property zooms to the extent of all the selected features from all the layers in the data frame. Essentially, it performs the same operation as ...
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