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.
| 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.
| String |
Code sample
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)