topic Retrieving Spatial reference of a layer in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/retrieving-spatial-reference-of-a-layer/m-p/741391#M57320 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I tried the following for retrieving spatial reference of a layer but can't make it work! Please help!!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; import arcpy</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; fc = "C:/GIS222(Python)/Lab4/NYState.shp"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; sr = arcpy.Describe(fc).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the 3rd line above nothing is showing up in auto completion after arcpy.Describe(fc). </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was expecting Spatial Reference after the period</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Am I doing anything wrong?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:43:44 GMT abubadruddin 2011-01-07T14:43:44Z Retrieving Spatial reference of a layer https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/retrieving-spatial-reference-of-a-layer/m-p/741391#M57320 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I tried the following for retrieving spatial reference of a layer but can't make it work! Please help!!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; import arcpy</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; fc = "C:/GIS222(Python)/Lab4/NYState.shp"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&gt;&gt;&gt; sr = arcpy.Describe(fc).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the 3rd line above nothing is showing up in auto completion after arcpy.Describe(fc). </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was expecting Spatial Reference after the period</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Am I doing anything wrong?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:43:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/retrieving-spatial-reference-of-a-layer/m-p/741391#M57320 abubadruddin 2011-01-07T14:43:44Z Re: Retrieving Spatial reference of a layer https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/retrieving-spatial-reference-of-a-layer/m-p/741392#M57321 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>try, where inFC is the path to disk of a featureclass, </SPAN><BR /><PRE class="lia-code-sample line-numbers language-none"> desc = arcpy.Describe SR = desc(inFC).spatialReference</PRE></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:33:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/retrieving-spatial-reference-of-a-layer/m-p/741392#M57321 DanPatterson_Retired 2021-12-12T07:33:51Z