The :mod:`audioop` module contains some useful operations on sound fragments.
It operates on sound fragments consisting of signed integer samples 8, 16 or 32
-bits wide, stored in Python strings. All scalar items are integers, unless
+bits wide, stored in bytes objects. All scalar items are integers, unless
specified otherwise.
.. index::
.. function:: lin2alaw(fragment, width)
Convert samples in the audio fragment to a-LAW encoding and return this as a
- Python string. a-LAW is an audio encoding format whereby you get a dynamic
+ bytes object. a-LAW is an audio encoding format whereby you get a dynamic
range of about 13 bits using only 8 bit samples. It is used by the Sun audio
hardware, among others.
.. function:: lin2ulaw(fragment, width)
Convert samples in the audio fragment to u-LAW encoding and return this as a
- Python string. u-LAW is an audio encoding format whereby you get a dynamic
+ bytes object. u-LAW is an audio encoding format whereby you get a dynamic
range of about 14 bits using only 8 bit samples. It is used by the Sun audio
hardware, among others.