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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/sndhdr.rst15
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst7
-rw-r--r--Lib/sndhdr.py7
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_sndhdr.py13
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
5 files changed, 39 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst b/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst
index f36df68..f8b5d8b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
The :mod:`sndhdr` provides utility functions which attempt to determine the type
of sound data which is in a file. When these functions are able to determine
-what type of sound data is stored in a file, they return a tuple ``(type,
-sampling_rate, channels, frames, bits_per_sample)``. The value for *type*
+what type of sound data is stored in a file, they return a
+:func:`~collections.namedtuple`, containing five attributes: (``filetype``,
+``framerate``, ``nchannels``, ``nframes``, ``sampwidth``). The value for *type*
indicates the data type and will be one of the strings ``'aifc'``, ``'aiff'``,
``'au'``, ``'hcom'``, ``'sndr'``, ``'sndt'``, ``'voc'``, ``'wav'``, ``'8svx'``,
``'sb'``, ``'ub'``, or ``'ul'``. The *sampling_rate* will be either the actual
@@ -31,13 +32,19 @@ be the sample size in bits or ``'A'`` for A-LAW or ``'U'`` for u-LAW.
.. function:: what(filename)
Determines the type of sound data stored in the file *filename* using
- :func:`whathdr`. If it succeeds, returns a tuple as described above, otherwise
+ :func:`whathdr`. If it succeeds, returns a namedtuple as described above, otherwise
``None`` is returned.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ Result changed from a tuple to a namedtuple.
+
.. function:: whathdr(filename)
Determines the type of sound data stored in a file based on the file header.
- The name of the file is given by *filename*. This function returns a tuple as
+ The name of the file is given by *filename*. This function returns a namedtuple as
described above on success, or ``None``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ Result changed from a tuple to a namedtuple.
+
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index b40a6f3..feca241 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ smtplib
implement custom authentication mechanisms (contributed by Milan Oberkirch in
:issue:`15014`).
+sndhdr
+------
+
+* :func:`~sndhdr.what` and :func:`~sndhdr.whathdr` now return
+ :func:`~collections.namedtuple` \s (contributed by Claudiu Popa in
+ :issue:`18615`).
+
socket
------
diff --git a/Lib/sndhdr.py b/Lib/sndhdr.py
index 240e507..e5901ec 100644
--- a/Lib/sndhdr.py
+++ b/Lib/sndhdr.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ explicitly given directories.
__all__ = ['what', 'whathdr']
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+SndHeaders = namedtuple('SndHeaders',
+ 'filetype framerate nchannels nframes sampwidth')
+
def what(filename):
"""Guess the type of a sound file."""
res = whathdr(filename)
@@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ def whathdr(filename):
for tf in tests:
res = tf(h, f)
if res:
- return res
+ return SndHeaders(*res)
return None
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sndhdr.py b/Lib/test/test_sndhdr.py
index 5e0abe0..361f70f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sndhdr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sndhdr.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import sndhdr
+import pickle
import unittest
from test.support import findfile
@@ -18,6 +19,18 @@ class TestFormats(unittest.TestCase):
what = sndhdr.what(filename)
self.assertNotEqual(what, None, filename)
self.assertSequenceEqual(what, expected)
+ self.assertEqual(what.filetype, expected[0])
+ self.assertEqual(what.framerate, expected[1])
+ self.assertEqual(what.nchannels, expected[2])
+ self.assertEqual(what.nframes, expected[3])
+ self.assertEqual(what.sampwidth, expected[4])
+
+ def test_pickleable(self):
+ filename = findfile('sndhdr.aifc', subdir="sndhdrdata")
+ what = sndhdr.what(filename)
+ dump = pickle.dumps(what)
+ self.assertEqual(pickle.loads(dump), what)
+
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08de202..21ee7b2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue $18615: sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple.
+
- Issue #22462: Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it
appear in exception tracebacks.