How to edit raw PCM audio data without an audio library?

Question

I\'m interested in precisely extracting portions of a PCM WAV file, down to the sample level. Most audio modules seem to rely on platform-specific audio libraries. I want

Answer 1

I was looking this up and I found this: http://www.swharden.com/blog/2009-06-19-reading-pcm-audio-with-python/ It requires Numpy (and matplotlib if you want to graph it)

import numpy
data = numpy.memmap("test.pcm", dtype='h', mode='r')
print "VALUES:",data

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