datapackage provides means to work with DataPackages as defined on dataprotocols.org.

>> import datapackage
>>
>> # Note trailing slash is important for data.okfn.org
>> datapkg = datapackage.DataPackage('http://data.okfn.org/data/cpi/')
>>
>> print datapkg.title
Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI)
>> print datapkg.description
Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) for most countries in the world. Reference year is 2005.
>> # Weird example just to show how to work with data rows
>> print sum([row['CPI'] for row in datapkg.data])
668134.635662

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