[takee]

Or, if you have docked installed on a system anyway why not just use docker-py (docker's python bindings) directly to run stuff in containers?

[noajshu]

you can! I found it difficult to work with and decided to make something new after reading this post: http://blog.bordage.pro/avoid-docker-py/ It's a few years old but I think docker-py still needs some love for it to really shine.