[SciPy-dev] Adding sound backends to scipy for basic sound playback ?

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 06:05, David Cournapeau
<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I developed for my own research some (crude) audio backends to play
> sound on Linux. I thought it would be nice to have this capability
> built-in for scipy (something like sound/soundsc in matlab). Is this
> something which could be included in scipy ?

I don't think so. It adds significant dependencies and build issues
for something that is not really associated with the core subject of
scipy. It belongs in a separate package.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
 -- Umberto Eco