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- <section id="module-wave">
- <span id="wave-read-and-write-wav-files"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-wave" title="wave: Provide an interface to the WAV sound format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code></a> — Read and write WAV files<a class="headerlink" href="#module-wave" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.12/Lib/wave.py">Lib/wave.py</a></p>
- <hr class="docutils" />
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-wave" title="wave: Provide an interface to the WAV sound format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code></a> module provides a convenient interface to the Waveform Audio
- “WAVE” (or “WAV”) file format. Only uncompressed PCM encoded wave files are
- supported.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.12: </span>Support for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE</span></code> headers was added, provided that the
- extended format is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KSDATAFORMAT_SUBTYPE_PCM</span></code>.</p>
- </div>
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-wave" title="wave: Provide an interface to the WAV sound format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code></a> module defines the following function and exception:</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.open">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">wave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">open</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">file</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">mode</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.open" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>If <em>file</em> is a string, open the file by that name, otherwise treat it as a
- file-like object. <em>mode</em> can be:</p>
- <dl class="simple">
- <dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'rb'</span></code></dt><dd><p>Read only mode.</p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'wb'</span></code></dt><dd><p>Write only mode.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- <p>Note that it does not allow read/write WAV files.</p>
- <p>A <em>mode</em> of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'rb'</span></code> returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_read" title="wave.Wave_read"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_read</span></code></a> object, while a <em>mode</em> of
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'wb'</span></code> returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write" title="wave.Wave_write"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_write</span></code></a> object. If <em>mode</em> is omitted and a
- file-like object is passed as <em>file</em>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">file.mode</span></code> is used as the default
- value for <em>mode</em>.</p>
- <p>If you pass in a file-like object, the wave object will not close it when its
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">close()</span></code> method is called; it is the caller’s responsibility to close
- the file object.</p>
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.open" title="wave.open"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">open()</span></code></a> function may be used in a <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/compound_stmts.html#with"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">with</span></code></a> statement. When
- the <code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">with</span></code> block completes, the <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_read.close" title="wave.Wave_read.close"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_read.close()</span></code></a> or
- <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.close" title="wave.Wave_write.close"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_write.close()</span></code></a> method is called.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Added support for unseekable files.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py exception">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Error">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">exception</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">wave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Error</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Error" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>An error raised when something is impossible because it violates the WAV
- specification or hits an implementation deficiency.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <section id="wave-read-objects">
- <span id="id1"></span><h2>Wave_read Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#wave-read-objects" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">wave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Wave_read</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Read a WAV file.</p>
- <p>Wave_read objects, as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.open" title="wave.open"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">open()</span></code></a>, have the following methods:</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.close">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">close</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.close" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Close the stream if it was opened by <a class="reference internal" href="#module-wave" title="wave: Provide an interface to the WAV sound format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code></a>, and make the instance
- unusable. This is called automatically on object collection.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getnchannels">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getnchannels</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getnchannels" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns number of audio channels (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> for mono, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">2</span></code> for stereo).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getsampwidth">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getsampwidth</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getsampwidth" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns sample width in bytes.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getframerate">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getframerate</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getframerate" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns sampling frequency.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getnframes">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getnframes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getnframes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns number of audio frames.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getcomptype">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getcomptype</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getcomptype" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns compression type (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'NONE'</span></code> is the only supported type).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getcompname">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getcompname</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getcompname" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Human-readable version of <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_read.getcomptype" title="wave.Wave_read.getcomptype"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getcomptype()</span></code></a>. Usually <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'not</span> <span class="pre">compressed'</span></code>
- parallels <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'NONE'</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getparams">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getparams</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getparams" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns a <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.namedtuple" title="collections.namedtuple"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">namedtuple()</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(nchannels,</span> <span class="pre">sampwidth,</span>
- <span class="pre">framerate,</span> <span class="pre">nframes,</span> <span class="pre">comptype,</span> <span class="pre">compname)</span></code>, equivalent to output of the
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get*()</span></code> methods.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.readframes">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">readframes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">n</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.readframes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Reads and returns at most <em>n</em> frames of audio, as a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.rewind">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">rewind</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.rewind" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Rewind the file pointer to the beginning of the audio stream.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>The following two methods are defined for compatibility with the <a class="reference internal" href="aifc.html#module-aifc" title="aifc: Read and write audio files in AIFF or AIFC format. (deprecated)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">aifc</span></code></a>
- module, and don’t do anything interesting.</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getmarkers">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getmarkers</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getmarkers" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.getmark">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">getmark</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">id</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.getmark" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Raise an error.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>The following two methods define a term “position” which is compatible between
- them, and is otherwise implementation dependent.</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.setpos">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setpos</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">pos</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.setpos" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the file pointer to the specified position.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_read.tell">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tell</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_read.tell" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return current file pointer position.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- </dd></dl>
-
- </section>
- <section id="wave-write-objects">
- <span id="id2"></span><h2>Wave_write Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#wave-write-objects" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <dl class="py class">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write">
- <em class="property"><span class="pre">class</span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">wave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Wave_write</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Write a WAV file.</p>
- <p>Wave_write objects, as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.open" title="wave.open"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">open()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p>For seekable output streams, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code> header will automatically be updated
- to reflect the number of frames actually written. For unseekable streams, the
- <em>nframes</em> value must be accurate when the first frame data is written. An
- accurate <em>nframes</em> value can be achieved either by calling
- <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.setnframes" title="wave.Wave_write.setnframes"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">setnframes()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.setparams" title="wave.Wave_write.setparams"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">setparams()</span></code></a> with the number
- of frames that will be written before <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.close" title="wave.Wave_write.close"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">close()</span></code></a> is called and
- then using <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw" title="wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writeframesraw()</span></code></a> to write the frame data, or by
- calling <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframes" title="wave.Wave_write.writeframes"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writeframes()</span></code></a> with all of the frame data to be
- written. In the latter case <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframes" title="wave.Wave_write.writeframes"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writeframes()</span></code></a> will calculate
- the number of frames in the data and set <em>nframes</em> accordingly before writing
- the frame data.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Added support for unseekable files.</p>
- </div>
- <p>Wave_write objects have the following methods:</p>
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.close">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">close</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.close" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Make sure <em>nframes</em> is correct, and close the file if it was opened by
- <a class="reference internal" href="#module-wave" title="wave: Provide an interface to the WAV sound format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave</span></code></a>. This method is called upon object collection. It will raise
- an exception if the output stream is not seekable and <em>nframes</em> does not
- match the number of frames actually written.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setnchannels">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setnchannels</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">n</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setnchannels" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the number of channels.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setsampwidth">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setsampwidth</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">n</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setsampwidth" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the sample width to <em>n</em> bytes.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setframerate">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setframerate</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">n</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setframerate" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the frame rate to <em>n</em>.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>A non-integral input to this method is rounded to the nearest
- integer.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setnframes">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setnframes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">n</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setnframes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the number of frames to <em>n</em>. This will be changed later if the number
- of frames actually written is different (this update attempt will
- raise an error if the output stream is not seekable).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setcomptype">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setcomptype</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">type</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">name</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setcomptype" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the compression type and description. At the moment, only compression type
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NONE</span></code> is supported, meaning no compression.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.setparams">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">setparams</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">tuple</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.setparams" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>The <em>tuple</em> should be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(nchannels,</span> <span class="pre">sampwidth,</span> <span class="pre">framerate,</span> <span class="pre">nframes,</span> <span class="pre">comptype,</span>
- <span class="pre">compname)</span></code>, with values valid for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">set*()</span></code> methods. Sets all
- parameters.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.tell">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tell</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.tell" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return current position in the file, with the same disclaimer for the
- <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_read.tell" title="wave.Wave_read.tell"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_read.tell()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_read.setpos" title="wave.Wave_read.setpos"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Wave_read.setpos()</span></code></a> methods.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">writeframesraw</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">data</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Write audio frames, without correcting <em>nframes</em>.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Any <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object"><span class="xref std std-term">bytes-like object</span></a> is now accepted.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py method">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="wave.Wave_write.writeframes">
- <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">writeframes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">data</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Write audio frames and make sure <em>nframes</em> is correct. It will raise an
- error if the output stream is not seekable and the total number of frames
- that have been written after <em>data</em> has been written does not match the
- previously set value for <em>nframes</em>.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Any <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object"><span class="xref std std-term">bytes-like object</span></a> is now accepted.</p>
- </div>
- <p>Note that it is invalid to set any parameters after calling <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframes" title="wave.Wave_write.writeframes"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writeframes()</span></code></a>
- or <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw" title="wave.Wave_write.writeframesraw"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writeframesraw()</span></code></a>, and any attempt to do so will raise
- <a class="reference internal" href="#wave.Error" title="wave.Error"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">wave.Error</span></code></a>.</p>
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