I am interested in porting some of my old fractal imaging programs over from Borland C to python.  In Borland C, the putpixel command would place a specified color pixel within a rasterized graphical field.  Is there a simple way to do this in matplotlib?
After posting this I discovered that there is a putpixel command in PIL (Python Imaging Library), which has tools for dealing with pixel oriented graphics.  Matplotlib can also do the job as suggested by the answer above.
Is there a Matplotlib equivalent to the Borland C command putpixel?