14.5.1 Wave_read Objects

Wave_read objects, as returned by open(), have the following methods:

close ()
Close the stream, and make the instance unusable. This is called automatically on object collection.

getnchannels ()
Returns number of audio channels (1 for mono, 2 for stereo).

getsampwidth ()
Returns sample width in bytes.

getframerate ()
Returns sampling frequency.

getnframes ()
Returns number of audio frames.

getcomptype ()
Returns compression type ('NONE' is the only supported type).

getcompname ()
Human-readable version of getcomptype(). Usually 'not compressed' parallels 'NONE'.

getparams ()
Returns a tuple (nchannels, sampwidth, framerate, nframes, comptype, compname), equivalent to output of the get*() methods.

readframes (n)
Reads and returns at most n frames of audio, as a string of bytes.

rewind ()
Rewind the file pointer to the beginning of the audio stream.

The following two methods are defined for compatibility with the aifc module, and don't do anything interesting.

getmarkers ()
Returns None.

getmark (id)
Raise an error.

The following two methods define a term ``position'' which is compatible between them, and is otherwise implementation dependent.

setpos (pos)
Set the file pointer to the specified position.

tell ()
Return current file pointer position.


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