I've been looking for a Hython method or something that would return a list of all supported file extensions (by type preferably) but so far haven't had much luck. Anyone know how to get this. I'd prefer not to have to hard code it myself.

If you're talking about images, they are stored in “FBfiles” file, you can fetch them using that snippet:

GuillaumeJ
If you're talking about images, they are stored in “FBfiles” file, you can fetch them using that snippet:

file_types = []
for fb in hou.findFiles("FBFiles"):
    with open(fb, 'r') as f:
        file_types += [ft.strip() for ft in f.readlines() if \
                       not ft.startswith("#")]

print file_types

Thanks GuillaumeJ! This is definitely a step in the right direction. Now is there a similar file where I can find supported geometry file extensions?

Same code with “GEOfiles” instead of FBFiles

Thanks!

So this works for 90% of the file types, however I noticed it doesn't include some supported formats like .obj or .ia. Would these be listed in a separate file?

I found GEOio.json which has a bunch of the other extensions as well as other related info, so for now I am extracting them from the json and adding them to the ones I got from the GEOfiles file. Not ideal, but it kinda works.

GEOio.json would world for that yep

Drat. I was hoping there was a better way. Oh well.