The purpose of this project is to develop a python module which implements an interface to write fig files in a simple manner. One simple manner is with a mouse as the xfig does. But the interface from a programming language allows the automatic creation of fig files, for instance, it could build a graph with the results of a computation.
The selection of the python programming language attends to the preferences of the authors but it provides a lot of features that make it ideal for the task at hand. The (six) objects that appear in a fig file should have their counterpart as python objects. The programming with these low level objects is not very friendly so a second layer should be done to make easier the creation of the most common objects.
The last release is available from the sourceforge project page