Quick & Dirty ArcPy: Listing Data Sources

Matt - 3 December, 2014

Tags:

arcgis
arcpy
ESRI
GIS
python

I just had the need to go through a directory containing many (100+) layer files (.lyr) and verify the data sources in each. I could have loaded each into ArcMap and checked the properties, but choose not to. Here’s the bare-bones script I used instead:

import arcpy, glob,os

theDir = r"L:\gdrs\data\org\us_mn_state_dnr\elev_minnesota_lidar\\"
os.chdir(theDir)

for iFile in glob.glob("*.lyr"):
    print iFile
    lyr = arcpy.mapping.Layer(iFile)
    for i in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(lyr):
        try:
            print "    {0}: {1}".format(i,i.dataSource)
        except:
            print "    {0}: Does not support dataSource".format(i)

print "Done!"