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Esri can definitely be inconsistent (especially with naming things!) but to be fair I think all arcpy commands return a result object. Incidentally you can test this using type(fd0) which returns class 'arcpy.arcobjects.arcobjects.Result'

Stephen Lead
– Stephen Lead

2016-08-24 05:01:35 +00:00
Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 5:01
@StephenLead, what I was referring to that returns strings is ListFeatureClasses (and the like), which return lists of strings--vs ListFields, which returns a list of field objects.

Tom
– Tom

2016-08-24 15:17:40 +00:00
Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 15:17
yep, that one is definitely inconsistent

Stephen Lead
– Stephen Lead

2016-08-24 23:00:13 +00:00
Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 23:00

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