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
add collab stuff in, trying to fix that "trailing whitespace" error in merge bot.
fontforge: update 20120731_1 bottle.