Need to Export a Simple Summary List of a GDB

ChristopherStebbins1 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:55:18 GMT

Is there a tool or script that produces a list, either as a table or text file, of all the classes of a GDB?

Feature classes, data model type (poly, line, point), anno classes, networks, etc.

Re: Need to Export a Simple Summary List of a GDB

VinceAngelo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:33:04 GMT

There was a recent thread on counting feature classes -- the Python script could be trivially modified to
display the objects counted.

- V

Re: Need to Export a Simple Summary List of a GDB

JakeSkinner — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:55 GMT

Here is an example of the script. I could not find a way to list networks (i.e. geometric, topology, etc) within the database. The below script will list all feature datasets, feature classes (including geometry and data type), and tables and write the output to a txt file. You will just need to change the 'env.workspace' variable to the path of your GDB and the 'outtable' variable to a directory. The text file will automatically be created.

import arcpy, os
from arcpy import env
env.workspace = r"C:\temp\python\test.gdb"

outtable = open(r"C:\temp\python\results.txt", "w")

for dataset in arcpy.ListDatasets("*"):
    desc = arcpy.Describe(dataset)
    outtable.write(dataset + " " + desc.datasetType + "\n")
    for fc in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*", "", dataset):
         desc = arcpy.Describe(fc)
         outtable.write(fc + " " + desc.datasetType + " " + desc.featureType + " " + desc.shapeType + "\n")


for fc in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*"):
    desc = arcpy.Describe(fc)
    outtable.write(fc + " " + desc.dataType + " " + desc.featureType + " " + desc.shapeType + "\n")

for table in arcpy.ListTables("*"):
    desc = arcpy.Describe(table)
    outtable.write(table + " " + desc.dataType + "\n")    

outtable.close()

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