In the R world, these tasks are quickly performed using the raster and sp packages. However, there isn't a tool that makes these tasks easy for users in the Python open source package landscape.  ...  Our program teaches students how to work with a suite of earth and environmental data using open source Python.  ...  Acknowledgements There have been many contributors to earthpy that we are thankful for. We are also thankful for the feedback that we recieved through the software review implemented by pyOpenSci.  ...