Pages appears to have gained a more extensive set of AppleScript functions in this update, and is split into three different "suites": an application-related suite of methods, one for graphics ...

The first of these, appscript, is a bridge that allows you to call AppleScript functions by using Python code, which means you don't have to write any AppleScript code at all.

Macscript.com chief Steven Angier notes that the development of these AppleScript functions have been a long time coming. They’ve been tested in commercial projects, tweaked and refined ...

It’s an AppleScript that automates the process of ripping, then encoding, iTunes CD tracks as MPEG-4 audio files using QuickTime 6.x Pro.