24 bit signed integer binary conversion help needed

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Fri Jan 8 16:24:36 EST 2010


On 2010-01-08, Robert Somerville <rsomerville at sjgeophysics.com> wrote:

> I am trying to read 24bit signed WAV format (little endian) data from a 
> WAV file and convert it to 32 bit little endian integer format ... can 
> anybody please tell me how to do the conversion from 24 bit to 32 bit 
> with a snippet of Python code ???

def sext24(d):
    if ord(d[2]) & 0x80:
        return d+'\xff'
    else:
        return d+'\x00'
        
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