Cask is a high level convenience wrapper for the Alembic Python API. It blurs the lines between Alembic “I” and “O” objects and properties, abstracting both into a single class object. It also wraps up a number of lower-level functions into high level convenience methods.
Read an archive from disk
>>> a = cask.Archive("lights.abc")
Create a new empty archive
>>> b = Archive()
Deep dictionary access
>>> a.top.children["root/world/lgt/gaffer/point/pointShape"] <Light "pointShape"> >>> l.schema.getNumSamples() 6
https://alembic.github.io/cask
From source
$ git clone https://github.com/alembic/cask $ cd cask $ python setup.py install