Almost 4 years later... not sure if this is what you were looking for, but https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi
There seems to be a download link on vmware, but I couldn't get it to function... I think the github repo is the same and latest. Your question came up in a search while I was looking for it today, so I figure a pointer to github might save 15 minutes of searching for any others trying to get started...
and for some additional sample code: https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples