ArcInfo Workstation Table properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for ArcInfo Workstation INFO tables. The Table and Dataset property groups are also supported.

For an ArcInfo Workstation INFO table, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "ArcInfoTable".

Properties

Property	Explanation	Data Type
itemSet (Read Only)	A 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 INFO table properties example

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))