"""
Extended chunk so that it can also handle formats that are almost
according to EA IFF 85. In particular, added options to handle
little-endian and to handle formats that include the header size in
the chunk size value.
Fixed a bug where the header size was included in the chunk size, which
it isn't according to EA IFF 85.
Added a new method getsize() to get the size of the chunk (excluding
header).
Fixed chunk documentation (TIFF doesn't look like it uses chunks).
Converted wave to use chunk. Wave uses EA IFF 85 chunks except that
it uses little-endian encoding of integer data.
Removed __del__ methods from aifc and wave since I got an
AttributeError there upon exit.
"""
mode attribute of the file object (if it has one), otherwise
use 'rb'.
The documentation should still show this as required until
there's a new release.
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake