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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-04-23 21:40:02 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-04-23 21:40:02 (GMT)
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Small corrections to comments that were cloned from aifc; moreover
the description of setparams() was wrong. wave.py: Include the tag of an unknown format in the exception.
-rw-r--r--Lib/aifc.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/sunau.py7
-rw-r--r--Lib/wave.py8
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/aifc.py b/Lib/aifc.py
index ea4f600..0c62f8d 100644
--- a/Lib/aifc.py
+++ b/Lib/aifc.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
# setcomptype(type, name)
# -- set the compression type and the
# human-readable compression type
-# setparams(nchannels, sampwidth, framerate, nframes, comptype, compname)
+# setparams(tuple)
# -- set all parameters at once
# setmark(id, pos, name)
# -- add specified mark to the list of marks
diff --git a/Lib/sunau.py b/Lib/sunau.py
index aeac20e..02c13f55 100644
--- a/Lib/sunau.py
+++ b/Lib/sunau.py
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
# getsampwidth() -- returns sample width in bytes
# getframerate() -- returns sampling frequency
# getnframes() -- returns number of audio frames
-# getcomptype() -- returns compression type ('NONE' for AIFF files)
+# getcomptype() -- returns compression type ('NONE' or 'ULAW')
# getcompname() -- returns human-readable version of
-# compression type ('not compressed' for AIFF files)
+# compression type ('not compressed' matches 'NONE')
# getparams() -- returns a tuple consisting of all of the
# above in the above order
# getmarkers() -- returns None (for compatibility with the
@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@
# setcomptype(type, name)
# -- set the compression type and the
# human-readable compression type
-# setparams(nchannels, sampwidth, framerate, nframes, comptype, compname)
-# -- set all parameters at once
+# setparams(tuple)-- set all parameters at once
# tell() -- return current position in output file
# writeframesraw(data)
# -- write audio frames without pathing up the
diff --git a/Lib/wave.py b/Lib/wave.py
index 365bbf9..35e3b6b 100644
--- a/Lib/wave.py
+++ b/Lib/wave.py
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
# getsampwidth() -- returns sample width in bytes
# getframerate() -- returns sampling frequency
# getnframes() -- returns number of audio frames
-# getcomptype() -- returns compression type ('NONE' for AIFF files)
+# getcomptype() -- returns compression type ('NONE' for linear samples)
# getcompname() -- returns human-readable version of
-# compression type ('not compressed' for AIFF files)
+# compression type ('not compressed' linear samples)
# getparams() -- returns a tuple consisting of all of the
# above in the above order
# getmarkers() -- returns None (for compatibility with the
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
# setcomptype(type, name)
# -- set the compression type and the
# human-readable compression type
-# setparams(nchannels, sampwidth, framerate, nframes, comptype, compname)
+# setparams(tuple)
# -- set all parameters at once
# tell() -- return current position in output file
# writeframesraw(data)
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ class Wave_read:
if wFormatTag == WAVE_FORMAT_PCM:
self._sampwidth = (_read_short(chunk) + 7) / 8
else:
- raise Error, 'unknown format'
+ raise Error, 'unknown format: ' + `wFormatTag`
self._framesize = self._nchannels * self._sampwidth
self._comptype = 'NONE'
self._compname = 'not compressed'