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Problem with arcpy.describe

Anonymous User

Dear all

I am facing the next problem:

- I have a feature datasatet and a table in a geodatabase, both with the same name (lets say "object1"). It seems not to be any restriction for this.

- However, when I try to get the description (arcpy.Describe) using this common name "object1" I always get the description of the feature dataset and I am not able to access to the description of the table.....

Is there any workaround?

Thank you in advance

Jesús de Diego

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Accepted answers

blake.terhune

With this in mind, you could either rename your geodatabase table and dataset so they are unique, or make a table view of the table using a where clause that will not return any rows (for speed/performance) and do a describe on the view.

where_clause = "1=0"  ## Intentionally will not return any rows
arcpy.MakeTableView_management(inTable, "outTableView", where_clause)
descView = arcpy.Describe("outTableView")
print descView.name, descView.datasetType

All comments

Zeke

I didn't think you could have any elements with the same name in a gdb.

XanderBakker

True, tables do not have spatial data and cannot be stored in a feature Dataset. I would recommend renaming the table and make sure that all the elements in your gdb have a unique name. Also if you would want to start a cursor on the table, it will not find the table (since it will encounter the feature dataset with that name first) and throws an error.

Anonymous User

Hi Wes

I believe that tables can't be added to feature datasets....Anyway, in my case, the table is outside any feature dataset.

Following your path example:

Path for the table:

"Database\Table"

Path for the Feature Dataset:

"Database\Feature Dataset"

.... the same....

Thank you anyway

Jesús de Diego

WesMiller

Is your table inside your dataset with the same name? You need to provide the full path "database\dataset\table"

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