use more than one search term in ListTables

Trippetoe — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:21:33 GMT

Hello.

Is there a way to pass multiple search terms (or wildcards as described in the documentation) to the arcpy function ListTables? I've tried passing in a comma separate list of strings and passing in an array of strings. Neither of those approaches worked.

I need to work with all the tables that start with 'Ad' and those that start with 'T'. What i am doing now is calling the ListTables function twice (see below). This gets the results I need, but it seems very heavy - i have to go to the workspace twice to get the list i'm after:

datalist = arcpy.ListTables("PES.IPM.Ad*") + arcpy.ListTables("PES.IPM.T*")

I'd rather make the call once, passing something like this instead:

datalist = arcpy.ListTables(["PES.IPM.Ad*", "PES.IPM.T**" ])

Is such a thing possible?

Thank you.

Re: use more than one search term in ListTables

DanPatterson — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:56:22 GMT

No.

ListTables—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

concatenating the lists is fine even if one of the lists is empty

q = ['a', 'b'] q0 = [] q + q0 ['a', 'b']

you can use a list comprehension to make it look a tad better

table_lst = [arcpy.ListTables(i) for i in ["PES.IPM.Ad*", "PES.IPM.T*"]]

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