Starting a new thread... > Several modules in the stdlib work on a specific file format. It > is possible some of these formats are no longer used and thus the > stdlib modules for them can go. Below is a list of some modules > which rely on a file format that may be obsolete. > audioop > Raw (8|16|32)-bit wide audio files (as generated by the al and > sunaudiodev modules). > chunk > AIFF, AIFF-C, and RMFF audio files. > sunau > Sun AU audio files [#sun-au]_.
audioop and sunau disappearing would make me _very_ _very_ unhappy. audioop in particular- I make heavy use of it in a number of projects (both opensource and non). The sunau format is still used in quite a number of places - for instance, it's the default format for cisco access gateways, as well as a bunch of other hardware. I could see the justification for moving all of the audio-specific modules (these ones, aifc, wave, sndhdr) into a new toplevel 'audio' package. Although 'chunk' is also used for some forms of image file, IIRC. If we did move it to a new package, I could also see adding a new module that worked in a format-independent way (since aifc, sunau and wave all have compatible interfaces). _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
