no inputstream?

[max]

On May 15, 6:18 pm, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On May 15, 9:00 pm, max <maxwell.newla... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you're right, my java implementation does indeed parse for Id3v2
> > (sorry for the confusion).  i'm using the getrawid3v2() method of this
> > bitstream class (http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/docs/docs0.4/
> > javazoom/jl/decoder/Bitstream.html) to return an inputstream that then
> > i buffer and parse.  apologies if i misrepresented my code!
>
> > back to python, i wonder if i'm misusing the mutagen id3 module.  this
> > brief tutorial (http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Development/
> > Mutagen/Tutorial) leads me to believe that something like this might
> > work:
>
> > from mutagen.mp3 import MP3
> > id3tags = MP3(urllib2.urlopen(URL))
>
> > but this gives me the following TypeError: "coercing to Unicode: need
> > string or buffer, instance found".  does this mean i need to convert
> > the "file-like object" that is returned by urlopen() into a unicode
> > object?  if so, do i just decode() with 'utf-8', or is this more
> > complex?  as of now, doing so gives me mostly "No such file or
> > directory" errors, with a few HTTP 404s.
>
> [snip]
> I think it's expecting the path of the MP3 but you're giving it the
> contents.

cool, so how do i give it the path, if not in the form of a URL
string?  maybe this is obvious...