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To make this work better, I have removed tp_getattr in favor of tp_getattro and tp_methods. This method has much better support for inline help, but relies on PyObject_GenericGetAttr. From trawling through the python branches, it looks as if PyObject_GenericGetAttr was introduced in Python 2.2. I think it is an acceptable to trade better inline documentation with no support for versions earlier than 2.2. (I *could* do both, but my time is finite). git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyalsaaudio/code/trunk@20 ec2f30ec-7544-0410-870e-f70ca00c83f0
PyAlsaAudio =========== Author: Casper Wilstrup (cwi@unispeed.dk) This package contains wrappers for accessing the ALSA api from Python. It is currently fairly complete for PCM devices. My next goal is to have complete mixer supports as well. MIDI sequencer support is low on my priority list, but volunteers are welcome. If you find bugs in the wrappers please notify me on email. Please don't send bug reports regarding ALSA specifically. There are several bugs in this api, and those should be reported to the ALSA team - not me. This software is licensed under the PSF license - the same one used by the majority of the python distribution. Basically you can use it for anything you wish (even commercial purposes). There is no warranty whatsoever. Installation ============ Note: the wrappers link with the alsasound library alsa (from the alsa-lib package). Verify that this is installed by looking for /usr/lib/libasound.so before building. The libasound development files are also neccesary. On debian and derivatives, this is achieved by installing the alsalib-dev package. Naturally you also need to use a kernel with proper ALSA support. This is the default in Linux kernel 2.6 and later. If you are using kernel version 2.4 you may need to install the ALSA patches yourself - although most distributions ship with ALSA kernels. To install, execute the following: $ python setup.py build And then as root: # python setup.py install Using the API ============= There is a reasonably usefull API documentation included in the module documentation, which can be found in the doc subdirectory of the source distribution. There are also three example programs included with the source: 'playbacktest.py' which plays back raw sound data read from stdin 'recordtest.py' which captures sound from the microphone at writes it raw to stdout. 'mixertest.py' which can be used to manipulate the mixers