# Module 'sunaudio' -- interpret sun audio headers MAGIC = '.snd' error = 'sunaudio sound header conversion error' # convert a 4-char value to integer def get_long_be(s): return (ord(s[0])<<24) | (ord(s[1])<<16) | (ord(s[2])<<8) | ord(s[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 = get_long_be(fp.read(4)) data_size = get_long_be(fp.read(4)) encoding = get_long_be(fp.read(4)) sample_rate = get_long_be(fp.read(4)) channels = get_long_be(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`