import image to python as 2D array

I'm not an expert but I can think of some ways, not sure what you want to achieve though so you might not like my solutions:

from PIL import Image
from numpy import*

temp=asarray(Image.open('test.jpg'))
for j in temp:
    new_temp = asarray([[i[0],i[1]] for i in j]) # new_temp gets the two first pixel values

Furthermore, you can use .resize():

from PIL import Image
from numpy import*

temp=asarray(Image.open('test.jpg'))
x=temp.shape[0]
y=temp.shape[1]*temp.shape[2]

temp.resize((x,y)) # a 2D array
print(temp)

And if you convert the picture to black&white, the array becomes 2D automatically:

from PIL import Image
from numpy import*

temp=Image.open('THIS.bmp')
temp=temp.convert('1')      # Convert to black&white
A = array(temp)             # Creates an array, white pixels==True and black pixels==False
new_A=empty((A.shape[0],A.shape[1]),None)    #New array with same size as A

for i in range(len(A)):
    for j in range(len(A[i])):
        if A[i][j]==True:
            new_A[i][j]=0
        else:
            new_A[i][j]=1