Summary
The Describe function returns the following properties for Prj Files.
A Prj File returns a dataType of "PrjFile".
Properties
| Property | Explanation | Data Type |
| spatialReference (Read Only) | The SpatialReference class instance of the .prj file | SpatialReference |
Code sample
The following stand-alone script displays some SpatialReference class properties for a prj file.
import arcpy
# Create a Describe Object from a prj file.
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:\data\mexico.prj")
# Print some properties of the SpatialReference class object.
#
SR = desc.spatialReference
print "Name: " + SR.name
print "Type: " + SR.type
print "isHighPrecision: " + str(SR.isHighPrecision)
print "scaleFactor: " + str(SR.scaleFactor)