Using python to get extent and split coordinates into list

Question

I have the following code:

for fc in fcs:
    desc = arcpy.Describe(fc)
    ext = desc.extent
    ext.split(" ")
    print ext

I'm getting error: AttributeError: Point: Get attribute split does not exist

I know my fcs list is okay and the extent property is working correctly. I want each fc in fcs to output a list with the coordinates like this:

[-179.168566355952, 51.2134728616834, 179.748708978836, 71.3896098800921, NaN, NaN, NaN, NaN]

Hornbydd · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-08 17:30:26Z

up vote 8 down vote accepted

The ext is an object and not a list so Split won't work.

What you can do is:

list = [ext.XMin, ext.YMin, ext.XMax, ext.YMax]

Hornbydd
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answered Feb 7 at 13:14

radouxju
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Hornbydd · Answer 2 · 2014-02-07 13:13:50Z

up vote 0 down vote

You need to update your code to:

for fc in fcs:
    desc = arcpy.Describe(fc)
    ext = desc.extent
    l = str(ext).split(" ")
    print l

Note you are treating the extent object like a string then the returned objects in the list will be of string format.

answered Feb 7 at 13:13

Hornbydd
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I was able to do this in a round about way but the problem is that the list is now full of strings. – wannabe_n00b Feb 7 at 13:21

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