I use Python 2.7.3, Mac OS 10.8.2 and Xcode 4.5.1

I am trying to record sound using PyAudio following the instructions in http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/

and using the program

"""PyAudio example: Record a few seconds of audio and save to a WAVE file."""import pyaudio
import waveCHUNK = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 2
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = 5
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "output.wav"p = pyaudio.PyAudio()stream = p.open(format=FORMAT,channels=CHANNELS,rate=RATE,input=True,frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)print("* recording")frames = []for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):data = stream.read(CHUNK)frames.append(data)print("* done recording")stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
wf.setframerate(RATE)
wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
wf.close()

It works well with RATE = 44100. But I want to record with RATE = 16000 and CHANNELS = 1

Changing the values give me an error as

How will I be able to record with RATE = 16000?

I experienced the same problem. The issue was fixed in portaudio, but brew installed an old version for me. I upgraded with

brew install portaudio --HEAD

and then was able to run your code with CHANNELS=1 and RATE=16000