https://bitbucket.org/AMV_Ph34r/esix

...Huh, that seems a tad simpler than writing my own API wrapper. Hope this is kept up-to-date.
Also it returns generators for API calls like searches and such, so that's neat too?...

@Emserdalf: Actually it was posted to PyPI in 2014 so I'm still sceptical if there's been any API changes in the meantime. Basic functionality seems to work. Found one bug in the package that doesn't appear on bitbucket.