title: Socrata SODA and Python
body: <p>Socrata confirms there is no official Python API.  I would like to know if there is some reason for this that would make it worthwhile to learn one of the languages which does have official API support, ie is Python (and associated packages like Pandas) not the best choice for data wrangling.</p>
  
  <p>Specific things I'd like to do include looking at sites like data.lacity.gov 
  Whatever databases I look at on the browser dont let me set dates or other parameters.  I get a few months of results where  I'd expect years or decades.  That led to look for the API and to the lack of Python support apart from an emerging fork of a deprecated project. I'm assuming that the APIs allow this higher visibility, of course. ..</p>
  
  <p>The Old Guy in the Club</p>