Does anyone   have the necessary code
for manipulating the realaudio player from python?

I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to create a simple python client for playing realaudio --so I have an alternative to the GUI provided by realaudio.

For some background: I'm looking to control realaudio from the environment of my choice --emacs--
I currently use my own emacspeak-realaudio.el --an emacspeak module that allows me to start and stop playing realaudio.
If I create a python script to manipulate the realplayer, I would anticipate building in the ability to pause/resume and rewind/forward.
--Raman
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Best Regards,
--raman

Actually emacspeak-realaudio.el --one of the modules in my
speech extension to emacs (emacspeak) is currently only
capable of launching or stopping a reaulaudio stream --I do
this by simply nuking the realaudio process.

What I was hoping for was some python code or python library
that would allow me to drive the realplayer from python i.e.
the ability to activate the various UI components of the
realplayer client from Python  --think of it as "ole
automation done right" if you will.

Incidentally, it's a pleasure to hear from you directly-- I
have always admired python as a language for the clean
design -- as well as your own writings on the subject on the
python site.

I came to python late -- I am still a perl5 hacker --and
before perl5 I wrote tcl-- python scared me off until I
developped emacspeak because of whitespace being
significant.

For background-- I'm blind and use speech output to program
and use the computer in other ways-- before emacspeak I was
limited to what other blind users use --namely utilities
that read the screen --and in that environment handling
python was hard.

I wrote myself emacspeak starting 1994
(http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak) and early this
year I wrote an emacspeak extension to Barry Warsaw's
excellent python mode-- and so now writing python is a snap.

Still haven't written anything substantial in Python-- but
the realaudio enabler would be an interesting possibility--
more generally a set of python libraries that allowed me to
query and manipulate a generic GUI would be wonderful to
achieve.

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Best Regards,
--raman

If there's no COM interface but a they provide a C library to control
the player, it wouldn't be too hard to create a Python extension that
talks to the library, using any of the available tools (e.g. SWIG) or
-- if it's a small library -- by writing wrappers manually.

Announces the indentation level in a slightly softer voice.
But when using emacspeak with python mode,
I rely more on python-mode doing the right thing,
and use it's awareness of the block structure of the code to
speak things right.

Thus, as I close each block, I hear the block that I am
closing with utterances of the form
"closes block while: i<n"
"closes block def foo: "
etc.
 >
 > > Still haven't written anything substantial in Python-- but
 > > the realaudio enabler would be an interesting possibility--
 > > more generally a set of python libraries that allowed me to
 > > query and manipulate a generic GUI would be wonderful to
 > > achieve.
 >
 > Like embellishing a GUI built on Tkinter?
would be a possibility.
The acid test would be to write such a thing and see if one
could speech-enable something like Grail.

The idea behind speech-enabling --as implemented in
emacspeak--
as opposed to screenreaders is that you let the application
do the talking since it knows best what it is trying to
convey to the user--
rather than have a second app (the screenreader) examine the
visual display to produce the right spoken output.
 >
 > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Best Regards,
--raman

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Best Regards,
--raman