I've looked at pymedia (discontinued), pyglet(great but no converter in there) and audiotools(command line cd ripping), and none seem suitable.
In Python 2.7 , how do you do
convert(wavFileLocation, 'mp3')
If there is no python way, how would you do it in a manner which python can invoke? (e.g. Call a Cross platform command line tool... if exists return (name, pythonCodeForInvocation) )
using lame (command line), you can encode wav to mp3 like this:
$ lame --preset insane /path/to/file.wav
which would create:
file.wav.mp3
in Python, you could use subprocess to call it:
wav = 'myfile.wav'
cmd = 'lame --preset insane %s' % wav
subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)
I wrote a python library, pydub, that essentially does what Corey's Answer suggests, though it uses ffmpeg in to do the conversions in order to support more formats.
from pydub import AudioSegment
AudioSegment.from_wav("/input/file.wav").export("/output/file.mp3", format="mp3")
You must go for pydub, it is a great module for operations related with audio files.
NOTE. Do remember to install ffmpeg before you use pydub.
For help regarding installation of ffmpeg, you can use this link.
Then to install pydub just open your command prompt and type
pip install pydub
Then to convert any file from wav to mp3 just use pydub as
import pydub
sound = pydub.AudioSegment.from_wav("D:/example/apple.wav")
sound.export("D:/example/apple.mp3", format="mp3")