Retrieving size of shapefile in ArcPy?

Is it possible to retrieve the size of a shapefile using python and arcpy? If so, how?

Answer

Iterate through all files in the shapefile directory with a valid shapefile extension and add their sizes together. The os module is helpful for this task. Here's a function that returns the size of all shapefile files associated with an input shapefile in bytes. Use the full path of the shapefile as your input.

import os


def ShpSize (inShp):
    #standardize lowercase
    inShp = inShp.lower ()
    #shapefile extensions
    extensions = [".shp",
                  ".shx",
                  ".dbf",
                  ".sbn",
                  ".sbx",
                  ".fbn",

                  ".fbx",
                  ".ain",
                  ".aih",
                  ".atx",
                  ".ixs",
                  ".mxs",
                  ".prj",
                  ".xml",
                  ".cpg"]


    #shape file name without directory
    shpName = os.path.basename (inShp)
    #shape file name without .shp extension
    shpFlName = os.path.splitext(shpName)[0]

    #size set to zero
    size = 0
    #directory of shapefile
    shpDir = os.path.dirname (inShp)
    #iterate directory files

    for fl in os.listdir (shpDir):
        #standardize lowercase
        fl = fl.lower ()
        #skip file names that don't match shapefile
        flName = os.path.splitext(fl)[0]
        if not flName == shpFlName:
            #special case: .shp.xml file
            if not fl == shpFlName + ".shp.xml":
                continue
        #skip file names without proper extension

        ext = os.path.splitext(fl)[1]
        if not ext in extensions:
            continue
        #get size
        flFullPath = os.path.join (shpDir, fl)
        size += os.path.getsize (flFullPath)

    return size