  In this technical report, we describe a new version of SimpleSBML which
provides an easier to use interface to python-libSBML allowing users of Python
to more easily construct, edit, and inspect SBML based models. The most
commonly used package for constructing SBML models in Python is python-libSBML
based on the C/C++ library libSBML. python-libSBML is a comprehensive library
with a large range of options but can be difficult for new users to learn and
requires long scripts to create even the simplest models. Inspecting existing
SBML models can also be difficult due to the complexity of the underlying
object model. Instead, we present SimpleSBML, a package that allows users to
add and inspect species, parameters, reactions, events, and rules to a libSBML
model with only one command for each. Models can be exported to SBML format,
and SBML files can be imported and converted to SimpleSBML commands making it
very easy to edit the original SBML model. In the new version, a range of `get'
methods is provided that allows users to inspect existing SBML models without
having to understand the underlying object model used by libSBML.
