If you are unfamiliar with IPython, then skip to the middle section ... that they add to the classic Python shell. Figure 5 shows using a multiline code block to define a function in IPython.

SKiDL is very, very cool. It’s a bit of Python code that outputs a circuit netlist for KiCAD. Why is this cool? If you design a PCB in KiCAD, you go through three steps: draw the schematic ...