newwave 0.1.1

Drop-in replacement for Pythons wave.py

newwave - drop-in replacement for wave.py

wave.py is part of python stdlib and is used for handling WAVE audio files.

I started newwave because I wanted to fix an issue where it can read wave files which are not 'PCM Audio' such as having more than 2 channels or more than 24 bits, but not write them with correct headers.

Also, it provides newer wave features for use with older python versions:

• Add support for bytes and path-like paths in wave.open() (python 3.15)
• fix wave.Wave_write emitting unraisable when open raises (python 3.15)
• remove deprecated setmark, getmark, getmarkers interfaces (python 3.15)
• Support for reading WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE (python 3.12)

You can install newwave on python 3.10 or later.

This module is a drop-in replacement for wave.py - any code that works with wave can be upgraded to use newwave by simply modifying your import.

So instead of:

import wave
f = wave.open(file, 'w')

it is now:

import newwave as wave
f = wave.open(file, 'w')
...

What is more, I will try to upstream any modification in newwave to cpython so in future python versions you can enjoy the same improvements there.

TL;DR: newwave will be a great way to have these enhancements now, on your existing python, just by installing it from pypi using pip or uv.