get the data type of a field in specific

Question

Hello

I need to get the data type of a specific field, example field "NAME", not all fields of the Feature Class as does ListFields or Describe.

Thanks:confused:

ElenaG · Answer

Just search for that field while looping through the feature classes and then perform a describe on that searched field.

thank you very much, I'm starting with arcpy. thanks

ElenaG · Answer

ListFields takes a wildcard for the field name, passing in the field name should only return the single field.import arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:\GeoSpatialTraining\GISProgramming101\Exercises\Data"
infc= "Streets.shp"
fieln="FULL_STREE"
field = arcpy.ListFields(infc,fieldn)[0]
print field.type

thank you very much, I started to check on aid but had no idea, thanks 😄

ChrisFox3 · Answer

ListFields takes a wildcard for the field name, passing in the field name should only return the single field.import arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:\GeoSpatialTraining\GISProgramming101\Exercises\Data"
infc= "Streets.shp"
fieln="FULL_STREE"
field = arcpy.ListFields(infc,fieldn)[0]
print field.type