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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.
+