docs: def fastq_info(path):
      """ Found some info about how to ignore warnings in code blocks here:
        - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14463277/how-to-disable-python-warnings
      """
      numBases = 0
      numReads = 0
      readLengths = Counter()
      GCTot = 0
      with warnings.catch_warnings():
          warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
          handle = gzip.open(path, "rt")
          for record in SeqIO.parse(handle, "fastq"):
              numBases += len(record)
              numReads += 1
              readLengths[len(record)] += 1
              GCTot += sum(record.seq.count(x) for x in ['G', 'C', 'g', 'c', 'S', 's'])
          handle.close()
      GCPer = (GCTot/numBases)
      avgReadLen = (sum(value*count for value,count in readLengths.items())/numReads)
      return {"numBases": numBases,
              "numReads": numReads,
              "numGCBases": GCTot,
              "portionGC": GCPer,
              "avgReadLen": avgReadLen}