Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Hancock wrote:
>>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a
>>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background.
> 
> Cool. If you do write it and release it, I'd be interested in finding out
> about it.
> 
> You probably ought to consider starting with something existing like
> the Gnu EDS project -- but I'm assuming you probably already know
> about that.

Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for 
mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is 
surely a good place to get ideas of what Python can do in this area.

-Peter