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

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

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...