Along this line, you might find "cogs" (a toolkit for developing command-line utilities in Python) useful to build upon, it's an internal tool we use at Prometh

Along this line, you might find "cogs" (a toolkit for developing command-line utilities in Python) useful to build upon, it's an internal tool we use at Prometheus that's MIT licensed: https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/cogs https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/cogs