Edit Audio Using Python?

2007-06-20 Thread Ultrus
Hello Python Gurus, I picked up a book the other day on Python programming. Python rocks! I'm learning Python as I want to call upon it to handle some intensive tasks from PHP/web server. The top goal right now is automating audio editing using Python. Is it possible? I was able to do this directl

Re: Edit Audio Using Python?

2007-06-20 Thread Ultrus
Ah! I found this on the official website: http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/lib/module-audioop.html That should keep me occupied. If you think of anything interesting however, I would be happy to know. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Edit Audio Using Python?

2007-06-21 Thread Ultrus
Aaron, Thanks for sharing this! > I think you'll find that you have to put a lot of pieces together > to manipulate audio -- it's all there, but it's not straightforward. The challenge of building something unique makes it more worth while. > I did it in my "skimpygimpy" audio components, which

Re: Edit Audio Using Python?

2007-06-29 Thread Ultrus
Thanks to Aaron, I was able to read and write audio data using Python's wave module. Trying to better understand the data I'm looking at, what does each element of the frame represent, and how do I convert a sample ranging from -32,768 to 32,768 back to a frame set like below? When using a 16 bit

dealing with nested xml within nested xml within......

2007-07-09 Thread Ultrus
Hello all, I don't need specific examples, but I'm trying to wrap my head around parsing xml within xml and even further, not limiting how far someone will nest xml. I'm already making great use of BeautifulSoup's BeautifulStoneSoup to parse xml, but what do I do if I come across something like thi

Re: dealing with nested xml within nested xml within......

2007-07-09 Thread Ultrus
> You'd probably write a function that called itself to parse something > like this. Unfortunately, I am not a recursion expert. You can read up > on it though: > > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutrecur.htmhttp://pythonjournal.cognizor.com/pyj2.2/RecursionByAJChung.html Ah! That's t

replacing xml elements with other elements using lxml

2007-08-29 Thread Ultrus
Hello, I'm attempting to generate a random story using xml as the document, and lxml as the parser. I want the document to be simplified before processing it further, and am very close to accomplishing my goal. Below is what I have so far. Any ideas on how to move forward? The goal: read and edit

Re: replacing xml elements with other elements using lxml

2007-08-29 Thread Ultrus
Stefan, I'm honored by your response. You are correct about the bad xml. I attempted to shorten the xml for this example as there are other tags unrelated to this issue in the mix. Based on your feedback, I was able to make following fully functional code using some different techniques: from lxm

Re: replacing xml elements with other elements using lxml

2007-08-29 Thread Ultrus
Ah! I figured it out. I forgot that the tree is treated like a list. The solution was to replace the element with the first child, then use Python's insert(i,x) function to insert elements after the first one. lxml rocks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list