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The eph package provides some useful classes to retrieve and manipulate ephemerides.

Basic Usage:

import eph

req = eph.JPLReq() # create the request
        .read('defaults.cfg', 'jplparams') # read parameters from file
        .set({'COMMAND': '399', 'START_TIME': '2017-01-01', 'STOP_TIME': '2017-31-12'}) # set parameters from dictionary
res = req.request() # perform the request obtaining a response from jpl
eph = res.ephemeris # extract the ephemeris from the response

print(eph) # print data

The content of defaults.cfg can be something like this (see ftp://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/ssd/horizons_batch_example.long for a complete description of JPL parameters):

[jplparams]
CENTER='@0'
OBJ_DATA=NO
MAKE_EPHEM=YES
TABLE_TYPE=VECTORS
VEC_TABLE=1
REFERENCE_PLANE=ECLIPTIC
REF_SYSTEM=J2000
OUT_UNITS=AU-D
CSV_FORMAT=YES
VEC_LABEL=NO
STEP_SIZE=1d