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In my ongoing work to bring the SDL3 GPU API to pygame (pygame.gpu), there are a handful of additions outside the GPU module itself that make life easier for people writing 3D games on top of it. This is the first and simplest of those: adding Vector4 to pygame.math. The use cases for Vector4 are varied: from homogeneous coordinates, to RGBA colors on the GPU, to general data transfer as a shader float4 etc.

Even though it is designed for gpu use, it is completely independent of it, it doesn't define any upload/to_gpu methods, everything defined is strictly mathematical.

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The change adds pygame.math.Vector4 and the public pygame.Vector4 alias. It implements four-dimensional vector operations, properties, swizzling, type declarations, documentation, and comprehensive tests.

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Vector4 support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Vector4 core implementation
src_c/math.c
Adds four-dimensional storage, construction, arithmetic, vector operations, w access, four-component swizzling, formatting, pickling, and module registration.
Public API and type declarations
buildconfig/stubs/..., src_py/__init__.py, docs/reST/ref/math.rst
Exports Vector4, updates generated stubs, declares its constructors and methods, and documents its behavior and limitations.
Vector4 behavior tests
test/math_test.py
Tests construction, indexing, swizzling, arithmetic, vector operations, serialization, formatting, errors, and public method availability. Updates four-component swizzle return-type tests for Vector2 and Vector3.

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Vector4 adds a public API, but its generated top-level type stub remains inconsistent with the generator, causing source-distribution builds to fail. Resolve the generated output mismatch before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonCaller
  participant pygame
  participant pygame_math
  participant pgVector4_Type
  PythonCaller->>pygame: import Vector4
  pygame->>pygame_math: expose math.Vector4
  PythonCaller->>pgVector4_Type: construct Vector4 values
  pgVector4_Type-->>PythonCaller: return four-dimensional vector
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In `@buildconfig/stubs/pygame/__init__.pyi`:
- Line 49: Update the stub generator source or discovery input that produces the
pygame __init__ exports so Vector4 is emitted alongside Vector2 and Vector3; do
not manually preserve the generated line. Regenerate the stubs with the standard
generator and commit the resulting generated output.

In `@docs/reST/ref/math.rst`:
- Around line 1221-1222: Update the Vector4.normalize() and
Vector4.normalize_ip() documentation to state that normalizing a zero vector
raises ValueError, matching the documented behavior for Vector2 and Vector3.
- Around line 1149-1152: Update the Vector4 unsupported-method statement in the
Vector4 documentation to remove slerp from the listed unavailable operations,
while preserving the references to cross, rotate, and coordinate-system
conversions.

In `@src_c/math.c`:
- Around line 3873-3911: Run the repository’s formatting command, python3 dev.py
format, and commit the resulting clang-format changes for the modified method
table block containing vector4_reduce and vector___round__. Do not make
unrelated source changes.
- Around line 3751-3756: Update the Vector4 constructor and update()
keyword-argument handling so the zero-vector branch is used only when all four
components are omitted; route partial inputs such as y, z, or w alone through
the existing partial-component error path instead of silently discarding them.

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