I know from experience how much more of a headache it is to
build/distribute native extensions that depend on other native
extensions' ABIs (numpy, specifically).
Do Pygame Surface/Sound objects support the Buffer Protocol? This
would be a convenient way to to read and update object data without
needing to compile against Pygame.
Pygame has better buffer support than Python 3.
To be clear, pygame Surfaces and Sound objects export their data with
the New Buffer Protocol. The numpy specific surfarray and sndarray
modules are wrappers for the buffer based pixelcopy module. At the time
when I added New Buffer support to pygame, it was better developed than
that provided by the Python 3 buffer object.
Lenard Lindstrom
