On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:33:36 GMT, Nadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greeting list readers, > >I noticed that the wave read object has an *implementation dependent* >setpos(pos) method. When reading audio files, it is useful to be able >to set the position to a specific sample. While setpos(pos) may do this >on certain implementations (haven't tried it), it would not be a >reliable way to do it in a platform independent manner. How do you know this? I don't know either way, but superficially it looks like the wave.py author tried to do "the right thing." > >Is anyone familiar with an alternative wave package that would let one >arbitrarily access portions of a wave file? Clearly, one can read in up >to the desired point, but when the file is very large, this becomes an >inappropriate way of doing things. Why don't you at least try setpos, and fix it if there's a problem? Or report on the problem you _actually_ encounter, which could be useful. That much can't be much harder than looking for an alternative, and may inspire others to help make/find a workable solution for you.
Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
