ZIMply Core is an unstable fork of ZIMply, intended for developers who would like to use its pure Python zim file parser without the additional dependencies.
Install zimply-core from pypi:
pip install zimply-core
Now, in Python code, you can import from zimply_core:
from zimply_core import ZIMClient
zim_file = ZIMClient("wikipedia.zim", encoding="utf-8", auto_delete=True)
print("{name} contains {count} articles".format(
name=zim_file.get_article("M/Name").data.decode(),
count=zim_file.get_namespace_count("A")
))