Don't know about Python like languages but is sounds like something like Verilog or VHDL may be suitable for your case
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This is exactly it. The various *HDLs are explicitly written to create systems of logic gates.
Yeah Verilog. That's literally the language people use to design chips and FPGA bitstreams.
Someone has already done it: https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio
Sounds like you should take a look at https://www.nand2tetris.org/. Basically it walks through the process of building up a game like Tetris starting from logic gates. It has you write a very simple compiler for a mini language where you've built everything up from the base logic gates level, so it should be a pretty good guide for what you want.
I stumbled across Amaranth a while ago. It's been years since I've done FPGA programming, and I haven't had a reason to get into it again.
But Amaranth seems like a cool paradigm instead of AHDL/VHDL.
These guys are floating around berlin and its FOSS afaik.
Basicallly i think its a c++ library to help you write fgpa language for fgpa controllers (which are logic gates )
https://github.com/synogate/gatery
Not sure how close it will get you to your needs but feels on topic.
Maybe https://www.jitx.com/
Not sure if that will help in this particular case, but that looks super neat anyway. I have been planning to build a custom modular synthesizer so I'll try that out anyway. (Thankfully, it's Kicad integration is free. Yay!)