[Pythonmac-SIG] Is wave.py maybe broken?

[Arthur Elsenaar]

Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Dinu Gherman:
>
>> I'm trying to use the wave module in the standard library, but seem
>> to get errors when accessing .wav files which are otherwise playing
>> fine on OS X (see traceback below).
>
> The following, using PyObjC, does also not produce any sound for
> the .wav files I've got, but it does for .aiff ones...
>
> Kind of strange...

I've been hit by this limitation as well with pygame:

pygame.error: Unknown WAVE data format: 0x4x

The wave format has different 'incarnations' and some aren't supported 
by python. Quicktime on the other hand can play them just fine because 
it knows how to handle that particular format.

I say 'incarnations' as I haven't done any research in the nitty gritty 
of the wave formats.. yet.

Arthur