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L\¬Qc @ s d Z d d d YZ d S( s Simple class to read IFF chunks.
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An IFF chunk (used in formats such as AIFF, TIFF, RMFF (RealMedia File
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Format)) has the following structure:
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+----------------+
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| ID (4 bytes) |
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+----------------+
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| size (4 bytes) |
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+----------------+
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| data |
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| ... |
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+----------------+
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The ID is a 4-byte string which identifies the type of chunk.
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The size field (a 32-bit value, encoded using big-endian byte order)
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gives the size of the whole chunk, including the 8-byte header.
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Usually an IFF-type file consists of one or more chunks. The proposed
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usage of the Chunk class defined here is to instantiate an instance at
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the start of each chunk and read from the instance until it reaches
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the end, after which a new instance can be instantiated. At the end
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of the file, creating a new instance will fail with a EOFError
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exception.
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Usage:
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while True:
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try:
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chunk = Chunk(file)
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except EOFError:
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break
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chunktype = chunk.getname()
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while True:
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data = chunk.read(nbytes)
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if not data:
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pass
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# do something with data
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The interface is file-like. The implemented methods are:
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read, close, seek, tell, isatty.
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Extra methods are: skip() (called by close, skips to the end of the chunk),
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getname() (returns the name (ID) of the chunk)
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The __init__ method has one required argument, a file-like object
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(including a chunk instance), and one optional argument, a flag which
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specifies whether or not chunks are aligned on 2-byte boundaries. The
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default is 1, i.e. aligned.
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