Just wan't to say that beem supports now hive out of the box (https://github.com/holgern/beem) since version 0.22.3

from beem import Steem
from beem.account import Account
stm = Steem("https://api.hive.blog")
print(stm.is_hive)
acc = Account("bobinson", steem_instance=stm)
acc.print_info()