No way of reading ZIP files produced by Python package

[as2875]

Consider the example given in the documentation of datapackage-py, which I reproduce below.

1. Create two CSV files, data/cities.csv, and data/population.csv.
2. Make a new data package.

package = Package()

3. Infer the descriptor.

package.infer('**/*.csv')

4. Export the package.

package.save('datapackage.zip')

5. Load the package.

package = Package('datapackage.zip')

It would be convenient if datapackage-r's Package$load method had equivalent functionality. At the moment, it only accepts JSON descriptors, so cannot read data packages produced by datapackage-py (or by the R package itself), in other words

dataPackage <- Package.load('datapackage.zip')

gives an error. This makes handling data packages difficult.

I mention @sje30 for reference.

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[lwinfree]

thanks @as2875 for opening this. We are starting to work on improving this code, so this is a really helpful and timely issue.