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Wave_read objects, as returned by
<tt class=
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Close the stream, and make the instance unusable. This is
called automatically on object collection.
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class=
"method">getnchannels
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var></var>)
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Returns number of audio channels (
<code>1</code> for mono,
<code>2</code> for
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Returns sample width in bytes.
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Returns sampling frequency.
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Returns number of audio frames.
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Returns compression type (
<code>'NONE'
</code> is the only supported type).
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Human-readable version of
<tt class=
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<code>'not compressed'
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<code>'NONE'
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<code>(
<var>nchannels
</var>,
<var>sampwidth
</var>,
<var>framerate
</var>,
<var>nframes
</var>,
<var>comptype
</var>,
<var>compname
</var>)
</code>, equivalent to output
of the
<tt class=
"method">get*()
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</tt></b>(
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Reads and returns at most
<var>n
</var> frames of audio, as a string of bytes.
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4720' xml:id='l2h-
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class=
"method">rewind
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
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Rewind the file pointer to the beginning of the audio stream.
The following two methods are defined for compatibility with the
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Returns
<code>None
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</tt></b>(
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The following two methods define a term ``position'' which is compatible
between them, and is otherwise implementation dependent.
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</tt></b>(
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</var>)
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Set the file pointer to the specified position.
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Return current file pointer position.
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