Anyone know how to populate field descriptions from existing metadata? This question has been asked before, but no one has responded with a solution: Populating field descriptions. I spent some time trying to do it using ArcGIS API for Python without success. It appears that the field descriptions are attributes of the layer but are a nested dictionary with Description and Field Value Type under the fields. I can view the description and field type by printing the fields information, but I can't figure out how to update it. Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
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