Hi,

I couldn't find any function in inkex package to do path operations like difference (Ctrl + -), intersection (Ctrl + *) or exclusion (Ctrl + ^). anyone can help?

These operations cannot be found in the inkex package, but you could take a look at the inx-pathops extension. In that extension command line operations inkex.command is used to perform the boolean operations.

Thank you Ellen. I found below function in pathops source which creates a list of actions and then runs it by calling inkscape(svgfile, "--with-gui", actions=actions)

are you aware of any documentation where I can find more about this inkscape api. I couldn't find much in https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/inkex.command.html

    from inkex.command import inkscape

    def run_pathops(self, svgfile, top_path, id_list, ink_verb, dry_run=False):
        """Run path ops with top_path on a list of other object ids."""
        # build list with command line arguments
        actions_list = []
        for node_id in id_list:
            actions_list.append("select-by-id:" + top_path)
            actions_list.append("EditDuplicate")
            actions_list.append("select-by-id:" + node_id)
            actions_list.append(ink_verb)
            actions_list.append("EditDeselect")
        actions_list.append("FileSave")
        actions_list.append("FileQuit")
        actions = ";".join(actions_list)
        # process command list
        if dry_run:
            inkex.utils.debug(" ".join(["inkscape", "--with-gui", "--actions=" + "\"" + actions + 
            "\"", svgfile]))
        else:
            inkscape(svgfile, "--with-gui", actions=actions)

I have "learning to run inkscape from command lines" on my todo list, but know near to nothing per se. Maybe this command line builder from inklinea could help you: https://inkscape.org/forums/other/inkscape-command-line-builder-work-in-progress/#c23571.

Or read more about command line here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_the_Command_Line

Thanks a lot.