[Tutor] TypeError and audio input

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 michaelbaker@operamail.com wrote:

> I'm not sure what this means:
> 
>  >>> a=('D:\\Temp\pentagon.wav')
>  >>> import wave
>  >>> l=wave.Wave_read.getnframes
>  >>> l(a)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: unbound method must be called with class instance 1st argument
> 
> how can I remedy this?

is getnframes a function? If so, it should be:

l=wave.Wave_read.getnframes()

> Also, can Python analyze input from a hardware audio in device like a
> microphone port? maybe with fileinput? stdin?

I dunno about on windows, but on unix audio is a pseudofile device. So it
can be opened the same way anything else can.

> thanks, a newbie couldn't survive without tutor@python.org!

Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this (and if there were other
answers, I deleted them in my mailbox cleanup): I was getting married and
have been really busy the last few days in particular.

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