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Describe object properties

Zusammenfassung

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

Eigenschaften

Eigenschaft Erläuterung Datentyp

baseName

(Schreibgeschützt)

The file base name.

String

catalogPath

(Schreibgeschützt)

The path of the data.

String

children

(Schreibgeschützt)

A list of sub elements.

If describing a workspace, the children property returns the contents of that workspace, including various data types such as feature classes, tables, rasters, and feature datasets.

Describe

childrenExpanded

(Schreibgeschützt)

Indicates whether the children have been expanded.

Boolean

dataElementType

(Schreibgeschützt)

The element type of the element.

String

dataType

(Schreibgeschützt)

The type of the element.

String

extension

(Schreibgeschützt)

The file extension.

String

file

(Schreibgeschützt)

The file name.

String

fullPropsRetrieved

(Schreibgeschützt)

Indicates whether full properties have been retrieved.

Boolean

metadataRetrieved

(Schreibgeschützt)

Indicates whether the metadata has been retrieved.

Boolean

name

(Schreibgeschützt)

The user-assigned name for the element.

String

path

(Schreibgeschützt)

The file path.

String

Codebeispiel

Describe object properties example

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))