Anthony Baxter wrote: > 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).
Just curious, how much pain would it cause you if these were CheeseShop packages instead of built-in? -- Talin _______________________________________________ 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
