PyMinuit is an extension module for Python that passes low-level Minuit functionality to Python functions. Interaction and data exploration is more user-friendly, in the sense that the user is protected from segmentation faults and index errors, parameters are referenced by their names, even in correlation matrices, and Python exceptions can be passed from the objective function during the minimization process. This extension module also makes it easier to calculate Minos errors and contour curves at an arbitrary number of sigmas from the minimum, and features a new N-dimensional scanning utility.