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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