I found that configure didn't find the python.pc files using pkg-config without explicitly updating the PKG_CONFIG_PATH from the brew file. Sorry if this the incorrect way of going about this, no amount of adding depends_on 'python' was letting brew include python into the PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
use EOS to build python program string, roll the bit of shell script into the python program itself to simplify.
cleanup
fontforge: update 20120731_1 bottle.