[Bf-committers] RE: [Bf-python] New Python Function - Patch

[Yann Vernier]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:59:40PM +0100, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Austin Benesh wrote:
> >Ok, here is the patch for the documentation. The way this function works:
> >
> >getPixelColor(x,y)
> >
> >X,Y are (obviously) the coordinates of the pixel you want to know the color
> >of. It returns 4 floats in the range of 0-1 (not 0-255) in the form of
> >[r,g,b,a]. I am going to start working on a setPixelColor(x,y) as well.
> 
> Just a random comment: I would think that such a method to access single
> pixel values with one function call per pixel is pretty useless unless you
> have a supercomputer.
> 
> What would probably be much more useful is a function returning a whole
> array (or whatever it's called in python) instead of a single pixel.

I'd go for a Python buffer protocol access, which would permit loading
the image into PIL (the python imaging library).

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