What features would we like to see in a "PhysioNet" Python package?

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A while back I created a template for a PhysioNet Python package: https://github.com/MIT-LCP/physionet

The package is essentially empty (other than a couple of functions that I added for https://professional.mit.edu/course-catalog/machine-learning-healthcare). If changing or removing these functions, we should make sure that we don't break anything for future iterations of the course.

What kind of features would we like to see in a Python package that integrates with PhysioNet? e.g.:

• Discover. Support discovery of datasets based on search criteria
• Access. Facilitate access and download of datasets
• Reuse. Support loading of data into popular data structures

There is probably some overlap with https://github.com/MIT-LCP/wfdb-python so we should also think about how the two packages would co-exist.