Piot, P. Halavanau, A. JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-180-9 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOA48 English 383-386 TUPOA48 ion quadrupole controls emittance interface Contribution to a conference proceedings 2017 2017-01 http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOA48 https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupoa48.pdf This paper discusses the implementation of a PYTHON-based high-level interface to the Fermilab ACNET control system. We will especially present examples of applications which include the interfacing of an ELEGANT beam-dynamics model to assist lattice matching and an automated emittance measurement via the quadrupole-scan method.