The pygame API gives you a 3D RGB array and a separate 2D alpha array, which happen to reference the same RGBA/BGRA memory. Are you suggesting that OpenCV Pytho

The pygame API gives you a 3D RGB array and a separate 2D alpha array, which happen to reference the same RGBA/BGRA memory. Are you suggesting that OpenCV Python bindings (in most of their functions, and likewise other libraries including numpy operators themselves) should have code assuming that a WxHx3 RGB array really references the memory of a WxHx4 RGBA array?.. If you really want a solution which is a patch rather than a function in your own code, I guess the way to go would be to persuade the maintainers of pygame and separately, the maintainers of its fork, pygame-ce, to add a pixels4d_maybe_rgba_and_maybe_bgra() function returning a WxHx4 array. Whether they would want to add something like that I don't know. But in any case, I think that since closed source projects, open source projects, and code by sister teams exist that will not accept patches, or will not accept them in a timely manner, it's interesting what you can do without changing someone else's code.