ArcGIS: accessing python list output from listFields geoprocessor

Question

I'm trying to access the output from the listFields geoprocessing object using the following code:

sFields = gp.ListFields(linktofeatureclass)
for j in range(len(sFields)):
    print sFields[j]

How do I get information about the fields that I have enumerated? Printing them (i.e. sFields in the above) just returns "geoprocessing describe field object object at 0x00E42E18". I'm looking for the field name, type, length, etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

try this:

sFields = gp.ListFields(linktofeatureclass)
for field in sFields:
    print field.Name, field.Type, field.Scale

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