Describe object properties

Résumé

The Describe function returns the following properties for all Describe objects.

Propriétés

Propriété	Explication	Type de données
baseName (Lecture seule)	The file base name	String
catalogPath (Lecture seule)	The path of the data	String
children (Lecture seule)	A list of sub elements	Describe
childrenExpanded (Lecture seule)	Indicates whether the children have been expanded	Boolean
dataElementType (Lecture seule)	The element type of the element	String
dataType (Lecture seule)	The type of the element	String
extension (Lecture seule)	The file extension	String
file (Lecture seule)	The file name	String
fullPropsRetrieved (Lecture seule)	Indicates whether full properties have been retrieved	Boolean
metadataRetrieved (Lecture seule)	Indicates whether the metadata has been retrieved	Boolean
name (Lecture seule)	The user-assigned name for the element	String
path (Lecture seule)	The file path	String

Exemple de code

Describe object properties example (stand-alone script)

Display some Describe object properties for a file geodatabase.

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/Data/chesapeake.gdb")

# Print some Describe Object properties
#
if hasattr(desc, "name"):
    print "Name:        " + desc.name
if hasattr(desc, "dataType"):
    print "DataType:    " + desc.dataType
if hasattr(desc, "catalogPath"):
    print "CatalogPath: " + desc.catalogPath

# Examine children and print their name and dataType
#
print "Children:"
for child in desc.children:
    print "\t%s = %s" % (child.name, child.dataType)