topic Get field description from metadata in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/get-field-description-from-metadata/m-p/598298#M46799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need help with accessing field description in feature classes using Python. So far, I've made a Python script that does the following (see attached):</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>gets a list of feature classes from a workspace,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gets a list of fields in each of those fcs</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>outputs field names and their info to a csv file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now I'd like to add fields description to each field as it is displayed in the metadata. Is there an easy way to do this? I was thinking of exporting metadata to an xml file and reading the field description from there... but seems like there may be an easier way.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:10:02 GMT KristinaGrace 2012-11-08T18:10:02Z Get field description from metadata https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/get-field-description-from-metadata/m-p/598298#M46799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need help with accessing field description in feature classes using Python. So far, I've made a Python script that does the following (see attached):</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>gets a list of feature classes from a workspace,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gets a list of fields in each of those fcs</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>outputs field names and their info to a csv file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now I'd like to add fields description to each field as it is displayed in the metadata. Is there an easy way to do this? I was thinking of exporting metadata to an xml file and reading the field description from there... but seems like there may be an easier way.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:10:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/get-field-description-from-metadata/m-p/598298#M46799 KristinaGrace 2012-11-08T18:10:02Z