Add cli for tables_io.convert (#92)

pyproject.toml

@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ dev = [
     "sphinx-autoapi", # Used to automatically generate api documentation
 ]
 
+[project.scripts]
+convert-table = "tables_io.cli:main"
+
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=62", # Used to build and package the Python project

src/tables_io/cli.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+"""cli for tables_io.convert"""
+
+import argparse
+
+import tables_io
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "input",
+        type=str,
+        help=f"input filename; suffix should be one of {list(tables_io.types.FILE_FORMAT_SUFFIXS.keys())}",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "output",
+        type=str,
+        help=f"output filename; suffix should be one of {list(tables_io.types.FILE_FORMAT_SUFFIXS.keys())}",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+
+    input_fname = args.input
+    output_fname = args.output
+    output_format = output_fname.split(".")[-1]
+
+    print(f"Converting {input_fname} to {output_fname}")
+
+    suffixes = tables_io.types.FILE_FORMAT_SUFFIXS
+    suffix = suffixes[output_format]
+
+    t_in = tables_io.read(input_fname)
+    t_out = tables_io.convert(t_in, suffix)
+    written = tables_io.write(t_out, output_fname)
+
+    print(f"Done converting file")
+
+    return 0