# Module 'sunaudio' -- interpret sun audio headers import audio MAGIC = '.snd' error = 'sunaudio sound header conversion error' # convert a 4-char value to integer def c2i(data): if type(data) <> type('') or len(data) <> 4: raise error, 'c2i: bad arg (not string[4])' bytes = audio.chr2num(data) for i in (1, 2, 3): if bytes[i] < 0: bytes[i] = bytes[i] + 256 return ((bytes[0]*256 + bytes[1])*256 + bytes[2])*256 + bytes[3] # read a sound header from an open file def gethdr(fp): if fp.read(4) <> MAGIC: raise error, 'gethdr: bad magic word' hdr_size = c2i(fp.read(4)) data_size = c2i(fp.read(4)) encoding = c2i(fp.read(4)) sample_rate = c2i(fp.read(4)) channels = c2i(fp.read(4)) excess = hdr_size - 24 if excess < 0: raise error, 'gethdr: bad hdr_size' if excess > 0: info = fp.read(excess) else: info = '' return (data_size, encoding, sample_rate, channels, info) # read and print the sound header of a named file def printhdr(file): hdr = gethdr(open(file, 'r')) data_size, encoding, sample_rate, channels, info = hdr while info[-1:] = '\0': info = info[:-1] print 'File name: ', file print 'Data size: ', data_size print 'Encoding: ', encoding print 'Sample rate:', sample_rate print 'Channels: ', channels print 'Info: ', `info`