Provide list of known GIS extensions

AlfredBaldenweck — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:31:42 GMT

This is a followup to Functio to List Non-GIS files - Esri Community, which was closed. Apparently, it's too much work to whitelist file types. But it should be pretty easy to blacklist them?

To take @EsriQruqs's idea:

Even better (IMO) and far easier would be for Esri to provide a list of known GIS extensions, much like:
>>> import string
>>> string.punctuation
'!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~'
But instead one would receive a list of strings.
This they could tuck away in some simple module and make it available for downloading or something. Or why not just a code snippet somewhere in the docs?
So, in your code you could do:
for FILE in os.listdir('.'):
    if not os.path.splitext(FILE)[1] in gistypes:
        other_files.append(FILE)

I think this is a pretty viable solution, with the added bonus of the publisher making this information available instead of the user(s) independently trying to compile a list of file extensions based on their own data.

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