Folder properties

Summary

The Describe function returns Workspace Properties for Folders.

A Folder returns a dataType of "Folder".

Code sample

Folder properties example (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script displays some properties for a folder.

import arcpy
 

# Create a Describe object
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data")

# Print the dataType and a workspace property
#
print "Data Type:      " + desc.dataType
print "Workspace Type: " + desc.workspaceType