help: Crossplattform audio functionality in Python

[Gerhard Häring]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:03:37PM +0000, Olov Johansson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently had my first serious look at Python and like it for many reasons.
> I'm trying to get a grip on it's capabilities and limits and as a result of
> that..:
> 
> How is the crossplatform sound support? From what I found in the
> documentation (2.1.1) there is Al (SGI), sunaudiodev (SunOS) and winsound
> (win32 and very limited). I want something that gives me a soundbuffer I can
> write to, and I'd like it to work on at least Linux (OSS/ALSA) and Windows.
> [...]

pygame (http://www.pygame.org/) contains a sound library that works on
*nix and Windows. It is based on several SDL libraries, so for
cross-platform sound only, it might be overkill. But it's cool stuff
nevertheless.

Gerhard
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