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19. Multimedia Services

19.1 audioop -- Manipulate raw audio data

19.2 imageop -- Manipulate raw image data

19.3 aifc -- Read and write AIFF and AIFC files

19.4 sunau -- Read and write Sun AU files

19.5 wave -- Read and write WAV files

19.5.1 Wave read Objects

19.5.2 Wave write Objects

19.6 chunk -- Read IFF chunked data

19.7 colorsys -- Conversions between color systems

19.8 rgbimg -- Read and write ``SGI RGB'' files

19.9 imghdr -- Determine the type of an image

19.10 sndhdr -- Determine type of sound file

19.11 ossaudiodev -- Access to OSS-compatible audio devices

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19.5 `wave` -- Read and write WAV files

The wave module provides a convenient interface to the WAV sound format. It does not support compression/decompression, but it does support mono/stereo.

The wave module defines the following function and exception:

open( file[, mode])

If file is a string, open the file by that name, other treat it as a seekable file-like object. mode can be any of

'r', 'rb': Read only mode.
'w', 'wb': Write only mode.

Note that it does not allow read/write WAV files.

A mode of 'r' or 'rb' returns a Wave_read object, while a mode of 'w' or 'wb' returns a Wave_write object. If mode is omitted and a file-like object is passed as file, file.mode is used as the default value for mode (the "b" flag is still added if necessary).

openfp( file, mode): A synonym for open(), maintained for backwards compatibility.

exception Error: An error raised when something is impossible because it violates the WAV specification or hits an implementation deficiency.

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