pySDP enters pre-release

The Python port of rSDP is now installable from PyPI as pysdp. It provides the same dataset discovery and extraction operations as the R package, with idiomatic returns: xarray.DataArray for rasters, geopandas.GeoDataFrame for vectors, and pandas frames for tabular extracts. Cloud reads are lazy by default and compose with Dask when you need parallelism.

We are calling this a pre-release while we shake out a few rough edges in the time-series API and gather feedback from the first wave of users in the CHESS workshop. Bug reports welcome on the issue tracker.