Mirror an image in JES - jython

Question

I'm trying to mirror an image. That is, if, e.g., a person is facing to the left, when the program terminates I want that person to now be facing instead to the right.
I understand how mirroring works in JES, but I'm unsure how to proceed here.
Below is what I'm trying; be aware that image is a global variable declared in another function.
def flipPic(image):
width = getWidth(image)
height = getHeight(image)
for y in range(0, height):
for x in range(0, width):
left = getPixel(image, x, y)
right = getPixel(image, width-x-1, y)
color = getColor(left)
setColor(right, color)
show(image)
return image

Answer 1

try this
width = getWidth(pic)
height = getHeight(pic)
for y in range (0,height):
for x in range (0, width/2):
left=getPixel(pic, x, y)
right=getPixel(pic, width-x-1,y)
color1=getColor(left)
color2=getColor(right)
setColor(right, color1)
setColor(left, color2)
repaint(pic)

Answer 2

I personally find that repaint is confusing for newbies (like me!).
I'd suggest something like this:
def mirrorImage(image):
width = getWidth(image)
height = getHeight(image)
for y in range (0,height):
for x in range (0, width/2):
left=getPixel(pic, x, y)
right=getPixel(pic, width-x-1,y)
color1=getColor(left)
color2=getColor(right)
setColor(right, color1)
setColor(left, color2)
show(image)
return image
mirrorImage(image)

Answer 3

This seems to work well.. I put some comments in so you can rewrite in your own style.
feel free to ask questions but I think your question may already be answered^^
#this function will take the pixel values for a selected picture and
#past them to a new canvas but fliped over!
def flipPic(pict):
#here we take the height and width of the original picture
width=getWidth(pict)
height=getHeight(pict)
#here we make and empty canvas
newPict=makeEmptyPicture(width,height)
#the Y for loop is setting the range to working for the y axes the started the X for loop
for y in range(0, height):
#the X for loop is setting the range to work in for the x axis
for x in range(0, width):
#here we are collecting the colour information for the origional pix in range of X and
colour=getColor(getPixel(pict,x,y))
#here we are setting the colour information to its new position on the blank canvas
setColor(getPixel(newPict,width-x-1,y),colour)
#setColor(getPixel(newPict,width-x-1,height-y-1),colour)#upsidedown
show(newPict)
#drive function
pict = makePicture(pickAFile())
show(pict)
flipPic(pict)
Might be easier to read if you copy it over to JES first :D
BTW I got full marks for this one in my intro to programming class ;)