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Release 9.3
Last modified January 19, 2010 |
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This topic was updated for 9.3.1.
Similar to the ArcInfo Describe command, the Describe method details properties, such as type, name, spatial reference, domains, and versioning, for Data Elements such as FeatureClasses, Tables, GeoDatasets, Coverage FeatureClasses, Datasets, RelationshipClasses, Files, Layers, and Workspaces, as well as geoprocessing objects such as TableViews and FeatureLayers.
Syntax
object.Describe(inputValue As String) As Object
| Part | Description |
| object | The instantiated geoprocessing object. |
| inputValue | The name of the DataElement, or GPObject, to be described. If the workspace is not set, you must include the path as well as the name. |
Objects
Cad Drawing Dataset
Coverage
Coverage FeatureClass
Dataset
FeatureClass
GDB FeatureClass
Describe (This object's properties apply to all types of data.)
Geometric Network
Layer
Network Dataset
Network Analysis Layer
Prj File
Raster Band
Raster Catalog
Raster Dataset
RelationshipClass
RepresentationClass
Table
GDB Table
TableView
Tin
Topology
Workspace
Examples
import arcgisscripting gp = arcgisscripting.create(9.3) gp.workspace = "c:\\temp\\buffer.mdb" fc = "roads2" dsc = gp.describe(fc) print "Describing:", fc print "FeatureType: \n" + str(dsc.FeatureType) print "TopologyName: \n" + str(dsc.TopologyName) print "HasM: \n" + str(dsc.HasM) print "HasZ: \n" + str(dsc.HasZ) print "HasSpatialIndex: \n" + str(dsc.HasSpatialIndex) print "ShapeFieldName: \n" + str(dsc.ShapeFieldName) print "ShapeType: \n" + str(dsc.ShapeType)