length of wav files

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Bob van der Poel wrote:
> 
> 
> I am looking at the docs for the wave library and can't seem to find the
> one bit of information I want to extract: the running time of a wav
> file. So, before I have to relearn my math, has someone some code which
> will deterime the time in seconds of a wav sound file?

import wave

wfile = wave.open ("somefile.wav", "r")
time = (1.0 * wfile.getnframes ()) / wfile.getframerate () 

The `1.0' above to to force the calculation to use floating point
arithmetic.

Erik
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