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Table properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for tables. The Dataset property group is also supported. The Editor Tracking property group is supported if editor tracking has been enabled for this table.

Table properties are available in many types of Describe objects.

For a table, the Describe function's dataType property returns a value of "Table".

Properties

Property Explanation Data Type

controllerMemberships

(Read only)

A list of controllerMemberships properties for the table.

Object

dateAccessed

(Read only)

The date in UTC that the table was last accessed in the map. For feature layers, this includes updating layer symbology.

String

dateCreated

(Read only)

The date in UTC that the feature class was created.

String

dateModified

(Read only)

The date in UTC that the feature class was last modified by a geoprocessing tool.

String

hasOID

(Read only)

Specifies whether the table has an Object ID field.

Boolean

hasOID64

(Read only)

Specifies whether the table's Object ID field is 64-bit integer. This property is only supported when the hasOID property returns True. Use the Python getattr function to avoid an AttributeError exception.

Boolean

OIDFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the Object ID field if it exists.

String

fields

(Read only)

A list of Field objects for the table. This property is equivalent to using the ListFields function.

Field

indexes

(Read only)

A list of Index objects for the table. This property is equivalent to using the ListIndexes function.

Index

Code sample

Table properties example

The following stand-alone script displays the OID field name if the table has one. It then prints the name and type for each field in the table.

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the table.
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/chesapeake.gdb/munich")

# If the table has an OID, print the OID field name
if desc.hasOID:
    print("OIDFieldName: " + desc.OIDFieldName)

# Print the names and types of all the fields in the table
for field in desc.fields:
    print("%-22s %s %s" % (field.name, ":", field.type))
    #print field.name + " = " + field.type