PyChef
A Python API for interacting with a Chef server.
Example
from chef import autoconfigure, Node
api = autoconfigure()
n = Node('web1')
print n['fqdn']
n['myapp']['version'] = '1.0'
n.save()
Further Reading
For more information check out http://pychef.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
Note
This is a fork of https://github.com/coderanger/pychef