After doing that, this is the output:
snd = 'RIFFZB\x00\x00WAVEfmt
\x10\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00D\xac\x00\x00\x88X\x01\x00\x02\x00\x10\x00data6B\x00\x00y\x18\x90\x17\xaf\x16\xd7\x15\x07\x15>\x14}\x13\xc3\x12\x10\x12d\x11\xbe\x10\x1f\x10\x85\x0f\xf1\x0ec\x0e\xd9\rU\r\xd6\x0c\\\x0c\xe6\x0bu\x0b\x07\x0b\x9e\n\xd0\xfd\\\xd9\xcc\xda/\xdc\x84\xdd\xcd\xde\t\xe0:\xe1`\xe2z\xe3\x8a\xe4\x90\xe5\x8c\xe6\x7f\xe7h\xe8I\xe9"\xea\xf2\xea\xbb\xeb|\xec6\xed\xea\xed\x96\xee<\xef\xdc\xefv\xf0\n\xf1\x99\xf1"\xf2\xa6\xf2%\xf3\xa0\xf3\x16\xf4\x88\xf4\xf5\xf4^\xf5\xc4\xf5%\xf6\x83\xf6\xde\xf65\xf7\x89\xf7\xd9\xf7\'\xf8r\xf8\xba\xf8\xff\xf8B\xf9\x82\xf9\xc0\xf9\xb0\x12<*\xa9(&\'\xb0%I$\xef"\xa2!a
-\x1f\x03\x1e\xe5\x1c\xd2\x1b\xc8'
But I still get the same error.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Douglas Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> PyMike wrote:
>
> >
> > I tried that out, and it got close to working. But I get an
> "unrecognized
> > file-type"' error
> > Code is below. What did I do wrong?
> >
> > f = open("shoot.wav")
> > s = f.read()
> > snd = repr(s)
> > print snd
>
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. You don't need to repr() the string if you are
> using it directly. You would only do that if you were writing it to a
> file in the form of a string, like so:
>
> f = open("sound.py", "w")
> f.write("snd = " + repr(s))
>
> Then sound.py becomes the basis of your decoding script. The string you
> pass to mixer.Sound should look like lots of these: "\x00", not lots of
> these "\\x00".
>
> BTW, if you are concerned about the length, as other threads would
> suggest, you would be better off using base64 encoding, possibly with a
> bz2 stage.
>
> import binascii #or base64 (same functions with different names)
>
> f = open("shoot.wav")
> snd = f.read()
>
> b64 = binascii.b2a_base64(snd)
>
> # save b64 to file like above, then
>
> snd = binascii.a2b_base64(b64)
> #etc
>
> To compress the wav before base64 encoding it, try bz2.compress().
>
>
> douglas
>
>
>
>
--
- PyMike
