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<span id="sndhdr-determine-type-of-sound-file"></span><h1>21.9. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sndhdr" title="sndhdr: Determine type of a sound file."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sndhdr</span></code></a> — Determine type of sound file<a class="headerlink" href="#module-sndhdr" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p id="index-0"><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/2.7/Lib/sndhdr.py">Lib/sndhdr.py</a></p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sndhdr" title="sndhdr: Determine type of a sound file."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sndhdr</span></code></a> 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 <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(type,</span>
<span class="pre">sampling_rate,</span> <span class="pre">channels,</span> <span class="pre">frames,</span> <span class="pre">bits_per_sample)</span></code>. The value for <em>type</em>
indicates the data type and will be one of the strings <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'aifc'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'aiff'</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'au'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'hcom'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'sndr'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'sndt'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'voc'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'wav'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'8svx'</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'sb'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'ub'</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'ul'</span></code>. The <em>sampling_rate</em> will be either the actual
value or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> if unknown or difficult to decode. Similarly, <em>channels</em> will be
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value is difficult to decode. The value for <em>frames</em> will be either the number
of frames or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code>. The last item in the tuple, <em>bits_per_sample</em>, will either
be the sample size in bits or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'A'</span></code> for A-LAW or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'U'</span></code> for u-LAW.</p>
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<code class="descclassname">sndhdr.</code><code class="descname">what</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sndhdr.what" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Determines the type of sound data stored in the file <em>filename</em> using
<a class="reference internal" href="#sndhdr.whathdr" title="sndhdr.whathdr"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">whathdr()</span></code></a>. If it succeeds, returns a tuple as described above, otherwise
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> is returned.</p>
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<code class="descclassname">sndhdr.</code><code class="descname">whathdr</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sndhdr.whathdr" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Determines the type of sound data stored in a file based on the file header.
The name of the file is given by <em>filename</em>. This function returns a tuple as
described above on success, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
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