Describe object properties

Résumé

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

Propriétés

PropriétéExplicationType 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))