diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/sndhdr.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sndhdr.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst b/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst index f36df68703..f8b5d8b246 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sndhdr.rst @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The :mod:`sndhdr` provides utility functions which attempt to determine the type of sound data which is in a file. When these functions are able to determine -what type of sound data is stored in a file, they return a tuple ``(type, -sampling_rate, channels, frames, bits_per_sample)``. The value for *type* +what type of sound data is stored in a file, they return a +:func:`~collections.namedtuple`, containing five attributes: (``filetype``, +``framerate``, ``nchannels``, ``nframes``, ``sampwidth``). The value for *type* indicates the data type and will be one of the strings ``'aifc'``, ``'aiff'``, ``'au'``, ``'hcom'``, ``'sndr'``, ``'sndt'``, ``'voc'``, ``'wav'``, ``'8svx'``, ``'sb'``, ``'ub'``, or ``'ul'``. The *sampling_rate* will be either the actual @@ -31,13 +32,19 @@ be the sample size in bits or ``'A'`` for A-LAW or ``'U'`` for u-LAW. .. function:: what(filename) Determines the type of sound data stored in the file *filename* using - :func:`whathdr`. If it succeeds, returns a tuple as described above, otherwise + :func:`whathdr`. If it succeeds, returns a namedtuple as described above, otherwise ``None`` is returned. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + Result changed from a tuple to a namedtuple. + .. function:: whathdr(filename) Determines the type of sound data stored in a file based on the file header. - The name of the file is given by *filename*. This function returns a tuple as + The name of the file is given by *filename*. This function returns a namedtuple as described above on success, or ``None``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + Result changed from a tuple to a namedtuple. + |