In [1]: from salt.client.api import APIClient

In [2]: client = APIClient()

#Use this data structure to lookup info for a single jid
In [3]: cmd_jid = {'fun': 'runner.jobs.lookup_jid', 'kwarg': {'jid': '20131130154312264323'}, 'username': 'adi', 'password': 'cloud', 'eauth': 'pam'}

#Use this data structure to lookup info for all jids

In [3]: cmd_all = {'fun': 'runner.jobs.list_all', 'username': 'adi', 'password': 'cloud', 'eauth': 'pam'}

In [4]: client.run(cmd_jid) # or client.run(cmd_all)
#Poll for events

while True:
        val = client.get_event(wait=5, tag='salt/', full=True)
        if val:
                pprint.pprint(val)