Python 1.3 on Python One

Tutorial

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whetting Your Appetite#

If you ever wrote a large shell script, you probably know this feeling: you’d love to add yet another feature, but it’s already so slow, and so big, and so complicated; or the feature involves a system call or other function that is only accessible from C …Usually the problem at hand isn’t serious enough to warrant rewriting the script in C; perhaps because the problem requires variable-length strings or other data types (like sorted lists of file names) that are easy in the shell but lots of work to implement in C; or perhaps just because you’re not sufficiently familiar with C.

Library Reference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Standard Module `aifc`#

This module provides support for reading and writing AIFF and AIFF-C files. AIFF is Audio Interchange File Format, a format for storing digital audio samples in a file. AIFF-C is a newer version of the format that includes the ability to compress the audio data.

Audio files have a number of parameters that describe the audio data. The sampling rate or frame rate is the number of times per second the sound is sampled. The number of channels indicate if the audio is mono, stereo, or quadro. Each frame consists of one sample per channel. The sample size is the size in bytes of each sample. Thus a frame consists of nchannels × samplesize bytes, and a second’s worth of audio consists of nchannels × samplesize × framerate bytes.

Language Reference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction#

This reference manual describes the Python programming language. It is not intended as a tutorial.

While I am trying to be as precise as possible, I chose to use English rather than formal specifications for everything except syntax and lexical analysis. This should make the document more understandable to the average reader, but will leave room for ambiguities. Consequently, if you were coming from Mars and tried to re-implement Python from this document alone, you might have to guess things and in fact you would probably end up implementing quite a different language. On the other hand, if you are using Python and wonder what the precise rules about a particular area of the language are, you should definitely be able to find them here.

Extending and Embedding

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Python 1.3 on Python One

Tutorial

Whetting Your Appetite#

Library Reference

Standard Module aifc#

Language Reference

Introduction#

Extending and Embedding

Standard Module `aifc`#