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andrewbt/count_sum_avg_features.py

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This python3 script uses OGR (you can run it from OSGeo4W Shell), to count all features of shapefiles in the current directory, sum the total, and give an average
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count_sum_avg_features.py
import os
from osgeo import ogr
feature_count_array = []
top = os.getcwd()
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top):
for file in files:
if file.endswith(".shp"):
dataset = ogr.Open(file)
print(dataset.name)
layer = dataset.GetLayerByIndex()
feature_count = layer.GetFeatureCount()
print(feature_count)
feature_count_array.append(feature_count)
feature_count_sum = sum(feature_count_array)
print("sum of features: " + str(feature_count_sum))
feature_count_avg = feature_count_sum / len(feature_count_array)
print("avg per shpfile: " + str(feature_count_avg))
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