A simple-to-use sound file writer

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Peter Otten:
> Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> 
>> Just as a contribution, since someone hinted that I haven't really
>> contributed much to the Python community.
>>
>> The [simple_sound] code will probably go into my ch 3 at <url:
>> http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3>, but sans sine wave generation since
>> I haven't yet discussed trig functions, and maybe /with/ changes suggested
>> by you?
> 
>> def _append_as_big_endian_int16_to( a, i ):
>>      if i < 0:
>>          i = i + 65536
>>      assert( 0 <= i < 65536 )
>>      a.append( i // 256 )
>>      a.append( i % 256 )
> 
>>          data = array.array( "B" )               # B -> unsigned bytes.
> 
> Do you know that array.array() supports 16 bit signed integers?

Yes. I used bytes since that seemed to be what [wave] required. But I tested now 
and at least [aifc] handles 16-bit integers fine.

Hm, nice example down the drain...


> There's even 
> a byteswap() method to deal with endianess.
> 
>> Utility class that may be used to capture output (an instance of this or
>> any other file like class can be passed as "filename" to
>> simple_sound.Writer):
>>
>> <code>
>> class BytesCollector:
> 
> Are you reinventing io.BytesIO() here?

Probably. :-) Checking... Yes, I was; thanks!


Cheers,

- Alf