Plotting a single pixel (possible newbie question)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Simon Evans <simon at george.maths.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>    I've installed and used both Tkinter and DISLIN (a 
>  scientific graphing extension), but what I'm really missing
>  is the ability to do the simplest graphics task of all:
>  lighting up a single pixel. You'd think it wouldn't
>  be too much to ask...
> 
>    Does anyone know of a graphics extension that offers this
>  simple facility, or a method of doing it in the ones I have?
>  I'd like to do it by some other method than drawing a line
>  with a length of one pixel!

assuming that you're drawing more than one pixel
per update, you can get decent results by com-
bining PIL [1] with Tkinter.

just draw the data into a PIL image memory, and
display it using Tkinter and PIL's ImageTk module.

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1) http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil