I will preface this by saying I don't code in Python, and I have never used either of these projects, but there are open source projects on GitHub which expose data from Netsuite through Python. I see at least two:
https://github.com/lukepirtle/python-netsuite
https://github.com/jmagnusson/netsuite
The first one appears to use SuiteTalk (SOAP) only with a 3-clause BSD license. The second one mentions web services and restlets, and has a license which looks to be copied from FreeBSD. They may be worth trying out, and likely better than rolling your own code, if your company allows the use of open source code in your projects.