Easy image rendering?

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    jay> Can someone tell me what's the absolute easiest way of putting an
    jay> image on to the screen in Python without just opening it up in an
    jay> application?  What's the simplest way to just put something up on
    jay> the screen?

Maybe something like this:

    import PIL.Image
    img = PIL.Image.open(open("someimage.png", "rb"))
    img.show()

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