File properties

Summary

When used with the Describe function, a file returns a Describe dataType property value of "File".

Code sample

File properties example

The following stand-alone script displays some Describe object properties for a file:

import arcpy


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

# Print some Describe Object properties for the file
#
print("Data Type: " + desc.dataType)
print("Path:      " + desc.path)
print("Base Name: " + desc.baseName)
print("Extension: " + desc.extension)