Please see these excellent documents on Python Wrappers
- GDAL API Tutorial from GDAL
- Python GDAL/OGR Cookbook by Jared Erickson
- GDAL notes by José Gómez-Dans
- Geoprocessing with Python by Chris Garrard. Also see the source code for the book
Examples in this repo
- gdal_translate.py
- gdalinfo.py. The version in this repo is very basic, and used for demo purposes. Please see the more complete example from OSGEO
Please see these excellent documents on Node Wrappers