[gdal-dev] get metadata from dataset

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Travis Kirstine
<traviskirstine at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you get the "image structure metadata" (source_color_space,
> interleave etc....) displayed in gdalinfo using the API
>
> python
>
> ds = gdal.Open('file.tif', 0)
> ds.Metadata
> returns a empty dict

Travis,

You need to fetch the "IMAGE_STRUCTURE" domain.

eg.
print ds.GetMetadata('IMAGE_STRUCTURE')

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