diff -r ceb1ee4bc214 Doc/library/aifc.rst
--- a/Doc/library/aifc.rst	Tue Apr 23 09:58:04 2013 +0300
+++ b/Doc/library/aifc.rst	Tue Apr 23 12:02:44 2013 +0300
@@ -96,7 +96,10 @@
 
 .. method:: aifc.getparams()
 
-   Return a tuple consisting of all of the above values in the above order.
+   Return a :func:`~collections.namedtuple` consisting of all of the above values in the above order.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.4 
+      Return a :func:`~collections.namedtuple` instead of a tuple.
 
 
 .. method:: aifc.getmarkers()
diff -r ceb1ee4bc214 Lib/aifc.py
--- a/Lib/aifc.py	Tue Apr 23 09:58:04 2013 +0300
+++ b/Lib/aifc.py	Tue Apr 23 12:02:44 2013 +0300
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
   getcomptype()   -- returns compression type ('NONE' for AIFF files)
   getcompname()   -- returns human-readable version of
              compression type ('not compressed' for AIFF files)
-  getparams() -- returns a tuple consisting of all of the
+  getparams() -- returns a namedtuple consisting of all of the
              above in the above order
   getmarkers()    -- get the list of marks in the audio file or None
              if there are no marks
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@
     _write_ulong(f, lomant)
 
 from chunk import Chunk
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+_result = namedtuple('params',
+                     'nchannels sampwidth framerate nframes comptype compname')
+
 
 class Aifc_read:
     # Variables used in this class:
@@ -378,9 +383,9 @@
 ##      return self._version
 
     def getparams(self):
-        return self.getnchannels(), self.getsampwidth(), \
-              self.getframerate(), self.getnframes(), \
-              self.getcomptype(), self.getcompname()
+        return _result(self.getnchannels(), self.getsampwidth(),
+                       self.getframerate(), self.getnframes(),
+                       self.getcomptype(), self.getcompname())
 
     def getmarkers(self):
         if len(self._markers) == 0:
@@ -658,8 +663,8 @@
     def getparams(self):
         if not self._nchannels or not self._sampwidth or not self._framerate:
             raise Error('not all parameters set')
-        return self._nchannels, self._sampwidth, self._framerate, \
-              self._nframes, self._comptype, self._compname
+        return _result(self._nchannels, self._sampwidth, self._framerate,
+                       self._nframes, self._comptype, self._compname)
 
     def setmark(self, id, pos, name):
         if id <= 0:
diff -r ceb1ee4bc214 Lib/test/test_aifc.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_aifc.py	Tue Apr 23 09:58:04 2013 +0300
+++ b/Lib/test/test_aifc.py	Tue Apr 23 12:02:44 2013 +0300
@@ -31,15 +31,16 @@
 
     def test_params(self):
         f = self.f = aifc.open(self.sndfilepath)
+        params = f.getparams()
         self.assertEqual(f.getfp().name, self.sndfilepath)
-        self.assertEqual(f.getnchannels(), 2)
-        self.assertEqual(f.getsampwidth(), 2)
-        self.assertEqual(f.getframerate(), 48000)
-        self.assertEqual(f.getnframes(), 14400)
-        self.assertEqual(f.getcomptype(), b'NONE')
-        self.assertEqual(f.getcompname(), b'not compressed')
+        self.assertEqual(f.getnchannels(), params.nchannels)
+        self.assertEqual(f.getsampwidth(), params.sampwidth)
+        self.assertEqual(f.getframerate(), params.framerate)
+        self.assertEqual(f.getnframes(), params.nframes)
+        self.assertEqual(f.getcomptype(), params.comptype)
+        self.assertEqual(f.getcompname(), params.compname)
         self.assertEqual(
-            f.getparams(),
+            tuple(f.getparams()),
             (2, 2, 48000, 14400, b'NONE', b'not compressed'),
             )
 
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@
         fout.aifc()
         p = (1, 2, 3, 4, b'NONE', b'name')
         fout.setparams(p)
-        self.assertEqual(fout.getparams(), p)
+        self.assertEqual(tuple(fout.getparams()), p)
         fout.initfp(None)
 
     def test_write_header_raises(self):