Dropped final character in saved filename with mic.record

[gciccarelli3]

Hi,

filename = '../data/20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_pataka'
microphone.switchOn()
core.wait(3)
mic.microphone.AdvAudioCapture(name='mic', stereo = False)
mic.record(sec=20, block=False, filename = filename + '.wav')
Using this line to specify file name results in 20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_patak.wav instead of 20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_pataka.wav
Note the dropped 'a' at the end of pataka

However, by adding an intermediate character in the concatenation, all characters are used.

mic.record(sec=20, block=False, filename = filename + '123456' + '.wav')
20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_pataka123456.wav

This could be my misunderstanding of how python concatenate works somehow.

This error does not happen with a shorter filename e.g. filename = '../data/mySubject1234' writes out as mySubject1234.wav

Using Psychop v1.81.03 on mac 10.8.2

Thanks.

[jeremygray]

This is a bug, will fix. The issue is not the length of the filename, but the fact that it ends with an 'a'. The bug is that if a filename is given to .record(), any trailing '.wav' is supposed to be removed, but that is done incorrectly and removes any of the characters w, a, v, or .

Possible work arounds:

1. end your filenames with another character, e.g., x:
   mic.record(sec=20, block=False, filename = filename + 'x.wav')
   It does not have to be 'x'. This will give you filenames like
   20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_patakax.wav
2. Set the filename prior to calling .record()
   mic.wavOutFilename = filename + '.wav'
   mic.record(sec=20, block=False)
   This will give you file names with extra stufff (a timestamp, in unix epoch time), like
   20150312094043_voice_ID1000_S001_T001_R001_pataka-1426173235.230.wav