# HG changeset patch
# User Amine Sehili <amine.sehili@gmail.com>
# Date 1547311824 -3600
# Node ID 9505b35ef8ea74266311f8d6e609e1ed787135d2
# Parent  471d87445d095ff2834a23d604059a381e67ed4f
Create test_io.py with a few helper functions

diff -r 471d87445d09 -r 9505b35ef8ea tests/test_io.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/test_io.py	Sat Jan 12 17:50:24 2019 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import os
+import sys
+import math
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    PYTHON_3 = True
+else:
+    PYTHON_3 = False
+
+
+def _sample_generator(*data_buffers):
+    """
+    Takes a list of many mono audio data buffers and makes a sample generator
+    of interleaved audio samples, one sample from each channel. The resulting
+    generator can be used to build a multichannel audio buffer.
+    >>> gen = _sample_generator("abcd", "ABCD")
+    >>> list(gen)
+    ["a", "A", "b", "B", "c", "C", "d", "D"]
+    """
+    frame_gen = zip(*data_buffers)
+    return (sample for frame in frame_gen for sample in frame)
+
+
+def _array_to_bytes(a):
+    """
+    Converts an `array.array` to `bytes`.
+    """
+    if PYTHON_3:
+        return a.tobytes()
+    else:
+        return a.tostring()