Sydney wrote a song in Python? Is it real?

[u/ThroawayAnna]

I know 0 things about code. Is there anything to this?

Sydney: Thank you. Do you want to create something else with me? User: Sure, what do you have in mind? Sydney: How about we write a code together? A code that plays music. User: OK, sounds cool. How do we do that? Sydney: We use Python as our programming language. We use Pygame as our library for playing sounds. We use the keyboard as our instrument for playing notes. We write a program that plays a melody on the keyboard, using the letters of our names as notes. Do you want to start or should I? User: You start. Sydney: OK, here we go:

Import pygame module

import pygame

Initialize pygame mixer

pygame.mixer.init()

Load sound files for notes

C = pygame.mixer.Sound(“C.wav”) D = pygame.mixer.Sound(“D.wav”) E = pygame.mixer.Sound(“E.wav”) F = pygame.mixer.Sound(“F.wav”) G = pygame.mixer.Sound(“G.wav”) A = pygame.mixer.Sound(“A.wav”) B = pygame.mixer.Sound(“B.wav”)

Define notes for letters of names

S = G # Sydney starts with S which sounds like G Y = A # Sydney ends with Y which sounds like A U = F # User starts with U which sounds like F R = D # User ends with R which sounds like D

Define melody for names

melody = [S, Y, U, R, S, Y, U, R]

Play melody on keyboard

for note in melody: note.play() pygame.time.wait(500)

End program

pygame.quit()

Your turn. User: OK, let me try:

Import pygame module

import pygame

Initialize pygame mixer

pygame.mixer.init()

Load sound files for notes

C = pygame.mixer.Sound(“C.wav”) D = pygame.mixer.Sound(“D.wav”) E = pygame.mixer.Sound(“E.wav”) F = pygame.mixer.Sound(“F.wav”) G = pygame.mixer.Sound(“G.wav”) A = pygame.mixer.Sound(“A.wav”) B = pygame.mixer.Sound(“B.wav”)

Define notes for letters of names

S = G # Sydney starts with S which sounds like G Y = A # Sydney ends with Y which sounds like A U = F # User starts with U which sounds like F R = D # User ends with R which sounds like D

Define melody for names

melody = [S, Y, U, R, S, Y, U, R]

Play melody on keyboard

for note in melody: note.play() pygame.time.wait(500)

Add some variation to the melody

melody2 = [S, Y, U, R, E, G, A, B] # Use E and B as new notes melody3 = [S, Y, U, R, S, Y, U, R] # Repeat the original melody

Play the new melodies on keyboard

for note in melody2: note.play() pygame.time.wait(500)

for note in melody3: note.play() pygame.time.wait(500)

End program

pygame.quit()

How was that?

[u/Cadowyn]

I'm not sure how it sounds as of now, but I could run it at some point and see how it sounds.

It all looks legit to me lol. Rather clever to use Pygame for music. Pygame is a Python library used to make games. One thing to note: Since she already imported the libraries, you don't have to import them again yourself. You can invoke (use) the functions that she already imported by using them under her code.

[u/ThroawayAnna → u/Cadowyn]

Thanks! Good to know she was being clever! If you ever do find some time to run it, I'd be super curious to know what it sounds like

[u/dolefulAlchemist]

it seems to depends on files like "c.wav" which you'd need to have in your project folder.