nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Discover if a workspace is a geodatabase or a feature dataset

CarlBeyerhelm

How can I discover if the os.path.dirname of a feature class is a feature dataset or a geodatabase? I need to generate a stand-alone frequency table of values from the feature class, but I can only create that stand-alone table at the geodatabase level, not at the feature dataset level.

Thanks...

Trouver plus de publications taguées avec

Accepted answers

JakeSkinner

Hi Carl,

If you're iterating through feature classes within a geodatabase, it will only return stand-alone feature classes unless you specify a feature dataset within the arcpy.ListFeatureClasses function. Ex: (will only return stand-alon feature classes)

lstFCs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*") for fc in lstFCs:     print fc

If you're not iterating using the arcpy.ListFeatureClasses function, you can use the describe method that Wayne mentioned. Ex:

dir = os.path.dirname(env.workspace + os.sep + fc) desc = arcpy.Describe(dir) if desc.dataType == "Workspace":     <remaining code>

All comments

T__WayneWhitley

...think you can use Describe for this. The datasetType property should return a string, FeatureDataset or FeatureClass, etc.

See the sample code here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000v0000002n000000

JakeSkinner

lstFCs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*") for fc in lstFCs:     print fc

If you're not iterating using the arcpy.ListFeatureClasses function, you can use the describe method that Wayne mentioned. Ex:

dir = os.path.dirname(env.workspace + os.sep + fc) desc = arcpy.Describe(dir) if desc.dataType == "Workspace":     <remaining code>

CarlBeyerhelm

OK, another rookie mistake on my part.

I'd been using the datasetType property without success, but the dataType property of os.path.dirname(feature class) distinguishes between a Folder, a Geodatabase, and a Feature dataset...which is what I needed.

Thanks to Wayne and Jake for nudging my pea-brain in the right direction...

Rejoindre la conversation

Les membres connectés peuvent publier, suivre les mises à jour, et plus encore. Nouveau ici ? Inscrivez-vous gratuitement.

Liens rapides

Community Help
Find useful guides, FAQs, and documents to help you navigate and make the most of Esri Community.