Sound programming: Tone production in Python?

[Peter Hansen]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 22 January 2003
> 07:05 pm:
> 
> > Just a stray question: what do you mean by zero-offset in this
> > context? I've written signal generators that can output arbitrary
> > periodic waveforms including sinewaves in this manner, but I don't
> > recall ever having to worry about anything I would have called the
> > "zero offset".
> >
>         As an bystander, I suspect what this refers to is that...
> 
>         sin() (or cos() ) traditionally returns values from -1.0 to +1.0.
> 
>         If you map that to an 8-bit unsigned integer, then
>                 -1.0    => 0
>                  0.0    => 127
>                 +1.0    => 255

Ah, of course, "DC offset".  I should have guessed that's what he meant...

"Zero offset" was making me think "in the time axis". :-(

Thank you.

-Peter