Python Standard Library

The whatsound Module

(Obsolete) The whatsound module is an alias for sndhdr. It is used in Example 9-3.

Example 9-3. Using the whatsound Module

File: whatsound-example-1.py

import whatsound # same as sndhdr

result = whatsound.what("samples/sample.wav")

if result:
    print "file format:", result
else:
    print "cannot identify file"

file format: ('wav', 44100, 1, -1, 16)