If you run svgview with no args, then open an SVG file using the menu, it is not displayed in the main window. This is because app.show_all() has been called before the aspect frame and SVGWidget have been created. To fix, simply add self.af.show_all() after self.af.add(self.da) in examples/svg/svgview.py:100 Using version 1.0.2 of pycairo.
The cairo.svg module is no longer part of pycairo. See http://www.cairographics.org/PycairoFAQ cairo.svg should really have been a package independent from pycairo since it wraps a different C library (libsvg-cairo and not cairo).
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