generate a pdf with embedded vector art using reportlab and svglib

I was looking around for this and had a bit of trouble finding it, hopefully it will help out someone.
As far as I can tell getting vector artwork into reportlab in a sensible manner (i.e. aside from generating raw pdf commands) is practically restricted to using svg.
Dinu Gherman’s svglib is the tool to use.
Given tiger.svg, […]