Topology properties (arcpy)

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for Topologies. Dataset Properties are also supported.

A Topology returns a dataType of "Topology".

Properties

PropertyExplanationData Type
clusterTolerance
(Read Only)

The cluster tolerance of the topology

Double
featureClassNames
(Read Only)

A Python list containing the names of the feature classes participating in the topology

String
maximumGeneratedErrorCount
(Read Only)

The maximum number of errors to generate when validating a topology

Double
ZClusterTolerance
(Read Only)

The z cluster tolerance of the topology

Double

Code Sample

Topology properties example (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script displays properties for a topology.

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from a topology.
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/moad.gdb/East/ParkZones_topology")

# Print some topology properties
#
print "%-27s %s" % ("ClusterTolerance:", desc.clusterTolerance)
print "%-27s %s" % ("ZClusterTolerance:", desc.ZClusterTolerance)
print "%-27s %s" % ("FeatureClassNames:", desc.featureClassNames)
print "%-27s %s" % ("MaximumGeneratedErrorCount:", desc.maximumGeneratedErrorCount)
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