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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.

📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--104862.org.readthedocs.build/

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pythongh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the ossaudiodev module
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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=""]

Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104773`.)

* :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.

@vstinner vstinner merged commit fc07fe4 into python:main May 24, 2023
@vstinner vstinner deleted the remove_ossaudio branch May 24, 2023 13:00
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Can these bits also be deleted? [OSSAUDIODEV_LIBS]

I created PR #104864 to remove it. Well spotted, I missed that one.

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