[Python-Dev] Expanding max chunk size to 4GB.

[Mark Rages]

On 7/6/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks ok to me, but have you tested this with other software that
> reads/writes wave files?

It appears to work, but I haven't done enough testing to be confident.

> You seem to be speculating about the format where you should be
> reading the reference documentation for this file format (alas, I
> can't help you find it -- you can Google for it as well as I can :).

This site says it's a "long": http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/wave.htm
This site says it's a "ulong": http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/aboutiff.htm

Unsigned makes more sense, considering it's a byte count and would
never be negative.

I've CC'd Erik de Castro Lopo, whose word is more definitive than
random websites.

> Also, patches, are best submitted to SourceForge. Read python.org/dev/.

Oh, sorry, the patch was only to illustrate my idea.  I'll submit a
proper patch to SF once I hear from Erik.

Regards,
Mark
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