restore accidentally deleted io.core.InputFile.from_string

pymatgen/io/core.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
+import numpy as np
 from monty.io import zopen
 from monty.json import MSONable
 
@@ -68,6 +69,20 @@ def write_file(self, filename: str | Path) -> None:
         with zopen(filename, "wt") as f:
             f.write(self.get_string())
 
+    @np.deprecate(message="Use from_str instead")
+    @classmethod
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def from_string(cls, contents: str):
+        """
+        Create an InputFile object from a string.
+
+        Args:
+            contents: The contents of the file as a single string
+
+        Returns:
+            InputFile
+        """
+
     @classmethod
     @abc.abstractmethod
     def from_str(cls, contents: str):