Python interface available outside Gnumeric Python console?

[Johann Rohwer <j m rohwer gmail com>]

Is the Python interface to Gnumeric workbooks (as accessed by "import 
Gnumeric") available as a stand alone or do I have to access it through the 
Gnumeric Python console? I'm using Gnumeric for data collation and analysis 
and need to interface through Python with other numerical simulation 
software (which take Gnumeric data as input and create new data as output 
which needs to be dumped back in another Gnumeric workbook). This works OK 
if I run through the Gnumeric Python console but is a bit cumbersome. It 
would be really cool if one could do this in a stand-alone script or from 
within a shell such as IPython. Is this possible or planned in the future 
development?

-- Johann