Me: I wanna do a quick bit of SVG manipulation. There must be a library for that...
Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go: No.

Apparently, SVG is hard.

I guess I'll do hacky XML manipulation instead...

@tmr232 I asked a machine and it listed several python libraries for manipulating SVG.

@hananc All the ones I found were very partial, none seem to support both reading an SVG from file & adding definitions and patterns.
The machines recommend lxml, at least to me.