gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the ossaudiodev module - #104862
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* Remove ossaudiodev extension in configure.ac and regenerate the configure script. * Remove ossaudiodev in Modules/Setup and Modules/Setup.stdlib.in.
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Using import ossaudiodev|from ossaudiodev regex, I only found a single project in PyPI top 5,000 projects (2023-04-13) using the ossaudiodev: nltk. See nltk/corpus/reader/timit.py. This code tries ossaudiodev but catches properly ImportError and uses pygame if the ossaudiodev module is missing. If ossaudiodev and pygame are missing, it displays the error message: you must install pygame or ossaudiodev for audio playback. In the What's New In Python 3.13 entry, I suggest replacing ossaudiodev with pygame. IMO pygame is a more portable since it supports multiple audio playback backend depending on the platform, whereas ossaudiodev only supports OSS backend (ex: it doesn't support Windows). |
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Can these bits also be deleted?
configure 13492: OSSAUDIODEV_LIBS="-lossaudio" ;; #( 13494: OSSAUDIODEV_LIBS="" configure.ac 3921: [NetBSD*], [OSSAUDIODEV_LIBS="-lossaudio"], 3922: [OSSAUDIODEV_LIBS=""]
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| (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104773`.) | ||
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| * :pep:`594`: Remove the :mod:`!ossaudiodev` module, deprecated in Python 3.11: | ||
| use the `pygame project <https://www.pygame.org/>`_ for audio playback. |
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Shall we also/instead mention the pygame-ce fork? https://pyga.me
More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/1112q10/pygame_community_edition_announcement/
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I would prefer to only link to pygame for now. It's unclear to me where the community goes, but so far, "pygame" remains the reference project. I hope that the two communities will merge again. If not, we can update the doc later. The problem is that the Python documentation is not updated frequently.
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Can we also delete Lib/test/audiotest.au?
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My PR #104863 removes it.
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I created PR #104864 to remove it. Well spotted, I missed that one. |
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