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I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within a Personal geodatabase, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is my example:

The problem I'm having is that after using arcpy.Describe(path_to_dataset).children, in which I can easily list the existing relationship classes by using datatype == "RelationshipClass". Then, I'm unable to access the rc individually on this way:

arcpy.Describe(path_to_rs) because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc, and both have the same path.

Any ideas?

I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within a Personal geodatabase, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is my example:

The above example was created by using ArcCatalog manually, but now I want to do some scripting in Python.

The problem I'm having is that after using arcpy.Describe(path_to_dataset).children, in which I can easily list the existing relationship classes by using datatype == "RelationshipClass". Then, I'm unable to access the rc individually on this way:

arcpy.Describe(path_to_rs) because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc, and both have the same path.

Any ideas?

I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within a Personal database, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is my example:

The problem I'm having is that after using arcpy.Describe(path_to_dataset).children, in which I can easily list the existing relationship classes by using datatype == "RelationshipClass". Then, I'm unable to access the rc individually on this way:

arcpy.Describe(path_to_rs) because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc, and both have the same path.

Any ideas?

I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within a Personal geodatabase, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is my example:

The problem I'm having is that after using arcpy.Describe(path_to_dataset).children, in which I can easily list the existing relationship classes by using datatype == "RelationshipClass". Then, I'm unable to access the rc individually on this way:

arcpy.Describe(path_to_rs) because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc, and both have the same path.

Any ideas?

I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within either a Personal database or a File Geodatabase, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is by looking at a personal database that it has been given to me. See below:

The problem I'm having is that I cannot use the arcpy.Describe() function distinctively (they have the same path), because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc.

I would like to solve this by using Python, not by changing names manually in Arccatalog.

Any ideas?

I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within a Personal database, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is my example:

The problem I'm having is that after using arcpy.Describe(path_to_dataset).children, in which I can easily list the existing relationship classes by using datatype == "RelationshipClass". Then, I'm unable to access the rc individually on this way:

arcpy.Describe(path_to_rs) because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc, and both have the same path.

Any ideas?