Pybel provides convenience functions and classes that make it simpler to use the Open Babel libraries from Python. Source: Python Pybel page on openbabel.
What is Pybel?
Pybel provides convenience functions and classes that make it simpler to use the Open Babel libraries from Python, especially for file input/output and for accessing the attributes of atoms and molecules. The Atom and Molecule classes used by Pybel can be converted to and from the OBAtom and OBMol used by the openbabel module. These features are discussed in more detail below.
The rationale and technical details behind Pybel are described in O’Boyle et al [omh2008]. To support further development of Pybel, please cite this paper if you use Pybel to obtain results for publication.
More informations
Information on the Pybel API can be found at the interactive Python prompt using the help() function. The full API is also listed in the next section (see Pybel API).
Source: Python Pybel home page on openbabel.org
http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.1/UseTheLibrary/Python_Pybel.html