> But I still get the same error.
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Douglas Bagnall <
douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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