Coverage properties

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Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for coverages. The Dataset property group is also supported.

For a coverage, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "Coverage".

Properties

PropertyExplanationData Type
tolerances
(Read Only)

Tolerances is a property set that includes the following properties:

  • fuzzy
  • dangle
  • ticMatch
  • edit
  • nodeSnap
  • weed
  • grain
  • snap
Object

Code sample

Coverage properties example

The following stand-alone script displays tolerance properties for a coverage:

import arcpy

# Create a describe object from a coverage
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/tongass1")

# Get the tolerances property set from the describe object
tolProps = desc.tolerances

# Print all eight tolerance properties
print("Tolerances")
print("==========")
print("%-10s %s" % ("fuzzy:", tolProps.fuzzy))
print("%-10s %s" % ("dangle:", tolProps.dangle))
print("%-10s %s" % ("ticMatch:", tolProps.ticMatch))
print("%-10s %s" % ("edit:", tolProps.edit))
print("%-10s %s" % ("nodeSnap:", tolProps.nodeSnap))
print("%-10s %s" % ("weed:", tolProps.weed))
print("%-10s %s" % ("grain:", tolProps.grain))
print("%-10s %s" % ("snap:", tolProps.snap))