You need to be more clear when you say 'write a program on an Openstack cloud'.
I made a research on your question, Look at the API functions here i.e. Object api, compute api etc apis, without these functionality getting finished, all the openstack is you cannot code anything programming wise. Anything you do is only you build a cloud and execute commands manually.
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