gis.gdal.Field

class Field

name

Returns the name of this field:

>>> city['Name'].name
'Name'

type

Returns the OGR type of this field, as an integer. The FIELD_CLASSES dictionary maps these values onto subclasses of Field:

>>> city['Density'].type
2

type_name

Returns a string with the name of the data type of this field:

>>> city['Name'].type_name
'String'

value

Returns the value of this field. The Field class itself returns the value as a string, but each subclass returns the value in the most appropriate form:

>>> city['Population'].value
102121

width

Returns the width of this field:

>>> city['Name'].width
80

precision

Returns the numeric precision of this field. This is meaningless (and set to zero) for non-numeric fields:

>>> city['Density'].precision
15

as_double()

Returns the value of the field as a double (float):

>>> city['Density'].as_double()
874.7

as_int()

Returns the value of the field as an integer:

>>> city['Population'].as_int()
102121

as_string()

Returns the value of the field as a string:

>>> city['Name'].as_string()
'Pueblo'

as_datetime()

Returns the value of the field as a tuple of date and time components:

>>> city['Created'].as_datetime()
(c_long(1999), c_long(5), c_long(23), c_long(0), c_long(0), c_long(0), c_long(0))