Prj File properties (arcpy)

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

Prj File properties example (stand-alone script)

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)