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Utilities to work with Data Packages as defined on specs.frictionlessdata.io

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# DataPackage.py

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A model for working with [Data Packages].

[Data Packages]: http://specs.frictionlessdata.io/data-package/

## Install

```
pip install datapackage
```

## Examples


### Reading a Data Package and its resource

```python
import datapackage

dp = datapackage.DataPackage('http://data.okfn.org/data/core/gdp/datapackage.json')
brazil_gdp = [{'Year': int(row['Year']), 'Value': float(row['Value'])}
for row in dp.resources[0].data if row['Country Code'] == 'BRA']

max_gdp = max(brazil_gdp, key=lambda x: x['Value'])
min_gdp = min(brazil_gdp, key=lambda x: x['Value'])
percentual_increase = max_gdp['Value'] / min_gdp['Value']

msg = (
'The highest Brazilian GDP occured in {max_gdp_year}, when it peaked at US$ '
'{max_gdp:1,.0f}. This was {percentual_increase:1,.2f}% more than its '
'minimum GDP in {min_gdp_year}.'
).format(max_gdp_year=max_gdp['Year'],
max_gdp=max_gdp['Value'],
percentual_increase=percentual_increase,
min_gdp_year=min_gdp['Year'])

print(msg)
# The highest Brazilian GDP occured in 2011, when it peaked at US$ 2,615,189,973,181. This was 172.44% more than its minimum GDP in 1960.
```

### Validating a Data Package

```python
import datapackage

dp = datapackage.DataPackage('http://data.okfn.org/data/core/gdp/datapackage.json')
try:
dp.validate()
except datapackage.exceptions.ValidationError as e:
# Handle the ValidationError
pass
```

### Retrieving all validation errors from a Data Package

```python
import datapackage

# This descriptor has two errors:
# * It has no "name", which is required;
# * Its resource has no "data", "path" or "url".
descriptor = {
'resources': [
{},
]
}

dp = datapackage.DataPackage(descriptor)

for error in dp.iter_errors():
# Handle error
```

### Creating a Data Package

```python
import datapackage

dp = datapackage.DataPackage()
dp.descriptor['name'] = 'my_sleep_duration'
dp.descriptor['resources'] = [
{'name': 'data'}
]

resource = dp.resources[0]
resource.descriptor['data'] = [
7, 8, 5, 6, 9, 7, 8
]

with open('datapackage.json', 'w') as f:
f.write(dp.to_json())
# {"name": "my_sleep_duration", "resources": [{"data": [7, 8, 5, 6, 9, 7, 8], "name": "data"}]}
```

### Using a schema that's not in the local cache

```python
import datapackage
import datapackage.registry

# This constant points to the official registry URL
# You can use any URL or path that points to a registry CSV
registry_url = datapackage.registry.Registry.DEFAULT_REGISTRY_URL
registry = datapackage.registry.Registry(registry_url)

descriptor = {} # The datapackage.json file
schema = registry.get('tabular') # Change to your schema ID

dp = datapackage.DataPackage(descriptor, schema)
```

### Push/pull Data Package to storage

Package provides `push_datapackage` and `pull_datapackage` utilities to
push and pull to/from storage.

This functionality requires `jsontableschema` storage plugin installed. See
[plugins](#https://github.com/frictionlessdata/jsontableschema-py#plugins)
section of `jsontableschema` docs for more information. Let's imagine
we have installed `jsontableschema-mystorage` (not a real name) plugin.

Then we could push and pull datapackage to/from the storage:

> All parameters should be used as keyword arguments.

```python
from datapackage import push_datapackage, pull_datapackage

# Push
push_datapackage(
descriptor='descriptor_path',
backend='mystorage', **<mystorage_options>)

# Import
pull_datapackage(
descriptor='descriptor_path', name='datapackage_name',
backend='mystorage', **<mystorage_options>)
```

Options could be a SQLAlchemy engine or a BigQuery project and dataset name etc.
Detailed description you could find in a concrete plugin documentation.

See concrete examples in
[plugins](#https://github.com/frictionlessdata/jsontableschema-py#plugins)
section of `jsontableschema` docs.

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