Colours in wxListCtrl

Can I set the colour of a single item in a wxListCtrl (list view)?
When I try I set the colour of the entire row even if I
select just one
item (under XP) or nothing happens (under GTK).

python 2.3.3
wxPytohn 2.4.2.4

Is this changed in 2.5.x or is it related to underlying factors?

You can't set the colour of a single item in report view -- you get
the entire row coloured that way -- so I'd not be surprised if it's
the same for a list view. GTK *will* colour the entire row, but only
if you set the colour on column 0. (W2K is apparently even more
bizarre and will colour the entire row if you set the colour on any
column, but only after you've used column 0 first.) This was the
case in 2.5.1.5, and as the bug report[1] I made is still open I
guess it hasn't gone away.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=956869&group_id=9863&atid=109863