image scaling in cairo, python

[_wolf]

[also posted to: cairo at cairographics.org]

hi all,

i've heard cairo has become the image scling library for firefox3. is
that true? wonderful, i want to do that in python. there's a python
interface for cairo, right? i've used it before to do simple vector
stuff. seems to work. however, i haven't been able to find relevant
pointers via google.

so do you have any pointers on how to resize a raster image with
python using cairo? i've been jumping through hoops for a while now,
and i believe it should be easier.

cheers and ~flow

ps. related (long) posts:

http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users/browse_frm/thread/44253ad01d809da5/cd051e6bced271e1#cd051e6bced271e1

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/5df65d99cff0d7bb#