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]))
668134.635662datapackage supports both Python 2 and 3.
datapackage is available under the GNU General Public License, version 3. See LICENCE for more details.