Coverage FeatureClass properties (arcpy)

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for Coverage Feature Classes. FeatureClass Properties, Table Properties and Dataset Properties are also supported.

A Coverage Feature Class returns a dataType of "CoverageFeatureClass".

Properties

Property	Explanation	Data Type
featureClassType (Read Only)	The feature class types. Point Arc Polygon Node Tic Annotation Section Route Link Region Label File	String
hasFAT (Read Only)	True if the coverage feature class has a Feature Attribute Table (FAT) and False if it does not.	Boolean
topology (Read Only)	Indicates the state of the coverage feature class topology. NotApplicable —The topology is not supported by this feature class. Preliminary —Topology is preliminary. Exists —Topology exists. Unknown —Topology status is unknown.	String

Code Sample

Coverage FeatureClass properties example (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script displays properties for a Coverage FeatureClass.

import arcpy

# Create describe object from a coverage feature class
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/tongass1/polygon")

# Print coverage feature class properties
#
print "%-17s %s" % ("featureClassType:", desc.featureClassType)
print "%-17s %s" % ("hasFAT:", desc.hasFAT)
print "%-17s %s" % ("topology:", desc.topology)