run ./zap.sh -dir /tmp/zap then quit, and edit config.xml under /tmp/zap/ to change mode from standard to protect or safe then restart using the same command

test.py

from zapv2 import ZAPv2 as zap
import time
target = "http://testfire.net"
z = zap(proxies={'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:8080'})
z.urlopen(target)
time.sleep(5)

print 'start..'
def progress(obj):
    while True:
        p = int(obj.status)
        if p < 100:
            print p
            time.sleep(5)
        else:
            time.sleep(3)
            break

z.spider.scan(target)
progress(z.spider)
z.ascan.scan(target)
progress(z.ascan)

import pprint

pprint.pprint(z.core.alerts(), indent=1)