Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Jessica, On 17/06/13 20:00, jessica peters wrote: [snip a bunch of stuff] Traceback (most recent call last): File "Horsemen_soundtest.py", line 5, in (module) snd = pygame.mixer.Sound("bach-cello-suite-1.wav") pygame.error: Unknown WAVE data format: 0x4x C:\Documents and settings\j

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-17 Thread jessica peters
know what the numbers are for. > > >  >my website: http://jahowe.com > > > > > From: Francois Dion >To: jessica peters >Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 7:31 AM > >Subject: Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems > > >

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-15 Thread eryksun
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > On 14 June 2013 08:49, eryksun wrote: >> >> C:\>doskey calc=c:\python33\python -c "from cmath import *;print($*)" >> >> C:\>calc e**(1j*pi/3) >> (0.5001+0.8660254037844386j) >> >> Cool. I totally forgot about doskey mac

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-15 Thread eryksun
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > On 14 June 2013 08:49, eryksun wrote: >> >> C:\>python -i -c "import os; os.chdir('C:/Python33')" > > Well, that didn't work anyway. Got me the right directory and the > interpeter, but I couldn't run a py file from command. Batch file didn

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread Jim Mooney
On 14 June 2013 08:49, eryksun wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney > wrote: > > C:\>python -i -c "import os; os.chdir('C:/Python33')" > Well, that didn't work anyway. Got me the right directory and the interpeter, but I couldn't run a py file from command. Batch file didn'

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread Jim Mooney
On 14 June 2013 13:35, Dave Angel wrote: > >> MS batch file py27.bat >> >> python2.7 -i -c "import os;os.chdir('c:/python27/**jimprogs');del(os) >> >> > That seems rather silly. Why not > > --py27.bat--- > c: > cd \python27\jimprogs > python2.7 %$ > - > That's certai

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/14/2013 11:43 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: On 13 June 2013 21:53, Dave Angel wrote: On 06/13/2013 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: Alan Gauld This is for my own convenience on my own machine. As a former webmaster I'm of course used to idiot-proofing anything released into the wild so it is u

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread Jim Mooney
On 14 June 2013 08:49, eryksun wrote: > C:\>doskey calc=c:\python33\python -c "from cmath import *;print($*)" > > C:\>calc e**(1j*pi/3) > (0.5001+0.8660254037844386j) > > Cool. I totally forgot about doskey macros. Still could be useful, and it > looks like they're still i

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread eryksun
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > > My IDE startup script has been changed to also go to the proper working > directory. > BUT - Py 3.3 at the command prompt uses my 3.3 working directory, and Py 2.7 > ALSO uses the 3.3 working directory, which is not what I want, obviously. >

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-14 Thread Jim Mooney
On 13 June 2013 21:53, Dave Angel wrote: > On 06/13/2013 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > >> Alan Gauld >> > This is for my own convenience on my own machine. As a former webmaster I'm of course used to idiot-proofing anything released into the wild so it is usable by everyone on every machine ;')

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/13/2013 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: Alan Gauld That's a dodgy way to solve the problem since if you change IDE or run the program outside the IDE that startup script will likely get forgotten and not be used. Remember you are not expected to use an IDE for anything other than developing

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Jim Mooney
Alan Gauld That's a dodgy way to solve the problem since if you change IDE or run the > program outside the IDE that startup script will likely get forgotten and > not be used. Remember you are not expected to use > an IDE for anything other than developing the code, its not > intended to be a ru

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Alan Gauld
On 13/06/13 18:56, Jim Mooney wrote: tripped me up. If you're using an IDE or editor, mine has the unfortunate habit of loading in its own directory, and having no option to automatically access files from my program directory. It saves a program into the last used directory, This is a functi

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Francois Dion
I'd start with something simple first, to make sure you have sound output etc. Run python interactively in the directory you have your wav file. At a minimum, you need to import pygame, init the mixer (args are not really needed, but I'll use what you had), set up the sound file and finally, play i

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Jim Mooney
I'll assume you're using Windows. If not, ignore this ;') winsound on windows is Python native, much simpler, and always works. After importing it you can type help(winsound) to see its controls. But here is the usage for a wav file (it doesn't play mp3s) There is no rule you have to use the pyga

Re: [Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/13/2013 01:21 PM, jessica peters wrote: Hi I'm about 2 yrs into studying Python - started with "Hello World", and I'm working with v 2.5.1 right now. The past year I've begun trying to write my own interactive fiction. That works pretty well, but now I'm attempting to put some music i

[Tutor] sound implementation problems

2013-06-13 Thread jessica peters
Hi I'm about 2 yrs into studying Python - started with "Hello World", and I'm working with v 2.5.1 right now.  The past year I've begun trying to write my own interactive fiction.  That works pretty well, but now I'm attempting to put some music into programs (I thought background music would b