The `python-awips <https://github.com/Unidata/python-awips>`_ package provides a Data Access Framework (DAF) for requesting data from a remote AWIPS II EDEX server.
The `AWIPS II Python Stack <about.html#awips-ii-python-stack>`_ installed via RPM contains the DAF, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, basemap, pint, shapely, and other packages.