Editing Inkscape SVG files with Python?

[Matej Cepl]

On 24/09/12 00:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Googling for "python inkscape" comes up with too many hits for Inkscape's
> plugin system to be much help to me.

Aside from suggesting lxml, I would ask "So why not to follow the stream 
and create Inkscape plugin"? I have in similar situation created a 
plugin (https://gitorious.org/inkscape-ungroup-deep/) and I have to say 
it wasn't that difficult and results are pretty satisfactory.

Matěj