[Python-Dev] PEP 594: update 1

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:23 PM Sean Wallitsch <
sean.wallitsch at dreamworks.com> wrote:

> My apologies for that oversight. My understanding is that many of the
> methods present in aifc depend heavily on audioop for reading and writing.
>

But are people using audioop directly? This shifts whether we still
publicly deprecate auidoop and make it an implementation detail of aifc
versus a free-standing module whose API we need to continue to support.

-Brett


>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:35 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2019, 12:14 Sean Wallitsch <sean.wallitsch at dreamworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear python-dev,
>>>
>>> I'm writing to provide some feedback on PEP-594, primarily the proposed
>>> deprecation and reason for the removal of the aifc and audioop libraries.
>>>
>>> The post production film industry continues to make heavy use of AIFFs,
>>> as completely uncompressed audio is preferred. Support for the consumer
>>> alternatives (ALAC, FLAC) is virtually non-existent, with no movement
>>> towards adoption of those formats. Even Apple's own professional editing
>>> tool Final Cut Pro does not support ALAC. Many of the applications also
>>> support WAV, but not all.
>>>
>>> Removal of this module from the standard library is complicated by the
>>> fact that a large number of film industry facilities have extremely limited
>>> internet access for security reasons. This does not make it impossible to
>>> get a library from pypi, but speaking to those devs has made me aware of
>>> what a painful process that is for them. They have benefited greatly from
>>> aifc's inclusion in the standard library.
>>>
>>
>> That's really helpful data, thank you!
>>
>> Is audioop also used? You mention both aifc and audioop at the beginning
>> and end of your message, but all the details in the middle focus on just
>> aifc.
>>
>> -n
>>
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