Folder properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the Workspace property group for folders.

For a folder, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "Folder".

Code sample

Folder properties example

The following stand-alone script displays some properties for a folder:

import arcpy

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

# Print the dataType and a workspace property
print("Data Type:      " + desc.dataType)
print("Workspace Type: " + desc.workspaceType)

Related topics

• Describe data
• Describe (arcpy)
• Describe (arcpy.da)