Python 1.4 on Python One

Tutorial

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

Whetting Your Appetite#

Disclaimer#

Now that there are several books out on Python, this tutorial has lost its role as the only introduction to Python for most new users. It takes time to keep a document like this up to date in the face of additions to the language, and I simply don’t have enough time to do a good job. Therefore, this version of the tutorial is almost unchanged since the previous release. This doesn’t mean that the tutorial is out of date — all the examples still work exactly as before. There are simply some new areas of the language that aren’t covered.

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 AIFF-C is a newer version of the format that includes the ability to compress the audio data.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.

Extending and Embedding

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

Python 1.4 on Python One

Tutorial

Whetting Your Appetite#

Disclaimer#

Library Reference

Standard Module aifc#

Extending and Embedding

Standard Module `aifc`#