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Ogrinfo is available nowadays also as a Python library function gdal.VectorInfo and it is very easy to use.

from osgeo import gdal, ogr
gdal.VectorInfo("point.shp")

"INFO: Open of `point.shp'\n      using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.\n\nLayer name: point\nMetadata:\n  DBF_DATE_LAST_UPDATE=2023-03-01\nGeometry: Point\nFeature Count: 3\nExtent: (7156402.165550, 207.123904) - (7156409.373471, 210.034795)\nLayer SRS WKT:\n(unknown)\nattr: String (1.0)\nnewcol: String (1.0)\nmy_fid: Integer (3.0)\n"
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