Summary
The Describe function returns the following properties for ArcInfo Workstation INFO Tables. Table Properties and Dataset Properties are also supported.
An INFO Table returns a dataType of "ArcInfoTable".
Properties
| Property | Explanation | Data Type |
| itemSet (Read Only) | A Python list of items in the table. Each entry in the list is an ArcInfo Workstation Item Properties describe object, representing one item in the table. | Object |
Code sample
ArcInfo Workstation Table properties example (stand-alone script)
The following stand-alone script displays a Table property from an ArcInfo Workstation Table. It then gets a list of ArcInfo Workstation items and prints the name of each item.
import arcpy
# Create a Describe object from the ArcInfo Table.
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/crimefreq")
# Print a Table property from the ArcInfo Table.
#
#print "HasOID: " + desc.hasOID
print "%-11s %s" % ("HasOID:", desc.hasOID)
# Get the itemSet from the ArcInfo Table and
# print the name and item type of each item.
#
iSet = desc.itemSet
for item in iSet:
print "%-12s %s" % ("\nName:", item.name)
print "%-11s %s" % ("Item type:", item.itemType)