Describe.catalogPath strange results

DanielDillard — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:21:53 GMT

I have a script tool that takes a workspace as a parameter, then loops through the tables in that workspace and prints their catalog path.

import arcpy
from arcpy import env

workspace = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

env.workspace = workspace

for fc in sorted(arcpy.ListTables()):
 arcpy.AddMessage(arcpy.Describe(fc).catalogPath)

I have a file geodatabase with a schema imported from an SDE via XML. When I run my script tool against this file gdb I get strange results. The catalog path prints correctly for most of the tables, but a few will show having different catalog paths. Is this a python thing, an environment thing, or an XML schema document thing?

Re: Describe.catalogPath strange results

DanielDillard — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:42:17 GMT

Follow up:

I was running my script tool in ArcMap. The tables that were showing a deviant catalog path were tables in the ArcMap TOC that were copies of the tables in my target workspace (same name, different workspace. Ex: the target workspace is a File GDB with a table called STUDY_INFO, and the table in ArcMap is STUDY_INFO.dbf in a folder containing .dbf tables as well as shapefiles.) If I removed the table from ArcMap, the tool listed the correct path. This is kind of annoying, as the tool parameter is a workspace path and has nothing to do with the ArcMap TOC.

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