wrapper for gmt info

gmt/__init__.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 # Import modules to make the high-level GMT Python API
 from .session_management import begin as _begin, end as _end
 from .figure import Figure
+from .modules import info
 
 
 # Get the version number through versioneer

gmt/modules.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+"""
+Non-plot GMT modules.
+"""
+
+from .clib import LibGMT
+from .utils import build_arg_string
+from .decorators import fmt_docstring
+from .utils import GMTTempFile
+
+
+@fmt_docstring
+def info(fname, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Get information about data tables.
+
+    {gmt_module_docs}
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    fname : str
+        The file name of the input data table file.
+    """
+    assert isinstance(fname, str), 'Only accepts file names.'
+
+    with GMTTempFile() as tmpfile:
+        arg_str = ' '.join([fname, build_arg_string(kwargs),
+                            "->" + tmpfile.name])
+        with LibGMT() as lib:
+            lib.call_module('info', arg_str)
+        return tmpfile.read()

gmt/tests/test_gmtinfo.py

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+"""
+Tests for gmtinfo
+"""
+import os
+
+from .. import info
+
+TEST_DATA_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data')
+
+
+def test_gmtinfo():
+    "Test gmtinfo"
+    data_fname = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, 'points.txt')
+    output = info(fname=data_fname, C=True)
+    assert output == '11.5309 61.7074 -2.9289 7.8648 0.1412 0.9338\n'