make io detection work also for non-existant files

Author: JuliaSprenger

neo/io/__init__.py

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ def list_candidate_ios(file_or_folder, ignore_patterns=['*.ini', 'README.txt', '
     """
     file_or_folder = pathlib.Path(file_or_folder)
 
-    if file_or_folder.is_file():
+    if file_or_folder.suffix:
         suffix = file_or_folder.suffix[1:].lower()
         if suffix not in io_by_extension:
             raise ValueError(f'{suffix} is not a supported format of any IO.')
@@ -452,12 +452,6 @@ def list_candidate_ios(file_or_folder, ignore_patterns=['*.ini', 'README.txt', '
     # to select all files sharing the `session1-` prefix
     elif file_or_folder.parent.exists():
         filenames = file_or_folder.parent.glob(file_or_folder.name + '*')
-
-    elif file_or_folder.suffix:
-        suffix = file_or_folder.suffix[1:].lower()
-        if suffix not in io_by_extension:
-            raise ValueError(f'{suffix} is not a supported format of any IO.')
-        return io_by_extension[suffix]
 
     else:
         raise ValueError(f'{file_or_folder} does not contain data files of a supported format')