the library has been tested extensively for equivalence with equivalent R code in cancensus, but hasn't been extensively tested in the wild, so please use with caution

and please leave feedback and issues on the github page

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this relied heavily on agentic cli coding tools (mostly cc + sonnet 4.5). agentic coders work really well when given lots of examples and a clearly defined reward function, which in this case relied on the extensive unit testing @jensvb.bsky.social and I built for cancensus

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GitHub - dshkol/pycancensus: python port of cancensus R package python port of cancensus R package. Contribute to dshkol/pycancensus development by creating an account on GitHub.

the cancensus R package has had 81k dls since 2018. It's the best way to interact with StatsCan data for R users.

pycancensus is a full python port, with equivalent data access and manipulation grammar, output, and geospatial retrieval.

check it out here: github.com/dshkol/pycan...

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