help: Crossplattform audio functionality in Python

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:22:07 GMT, Olov Johansson
<olov_johansson_not_for_sale at mail.ru> wrote:

>"Paul Winkler" <slinkp23 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Another option, though no python bindings exist yet: Portaudio,
>> see http://www.portaudio.com
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>the site appeared to be down when i tried that url.. anyways, to sum it up:
>there are severeal potential crossplatform sound libraries which would suit
>python just fine. among them are libao (gpl), libsdl (lgpl), mpg123 output
>routines (gpl), portaudio(?). 

The Portaudio license is very permissive - it's of the "you can do
anything except sue me" variety.

>writing python bindings for any of these
>should be no problem, but it needs to be integrated into the python core
>before it's really useable (to easen up things for users).

That would be nice, but I suspect the core team would see it as bloat.

--PW