module for assessing gray levels of gray level bitmap?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Oliver Pust wrote:

> is there a module for assessing the gray levels of gray level bitmap? I
> am thinking of a module that allows to open a bmp-file and stores the
> gray levels of each pixel in form of a matrix e.g. gray_level[x,y].

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm

from PIL import Image

im = Image.open("myimage.bmp")
print im.getpixel((x, y))

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