diff -r c440c5893d09 Doc/library/wave.rst
--- a/Doc/library/wave.rst	Sat Mar 01 12:09:55 2014 -0500
+++ b/Doc/library/wave.rst	Sun Mar 02 09:55:49 2014 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
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 The :mod:`wave` module provides a convenient interface to the WAV sound format.
-It does not support compression/decompression, but it does support mono/stereo.
+Mono and stereo files in 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit integer sample format are
+supported (linear PCM without any compression/decompression).
 
 The :mod:`wave` module defines the following function and exception:
 
diff -r c440c5893d09 Lib/wave.py
--- a/Lib/wave.py	Sat Mar 01 12:09:55 2014 -0500
+++ b/Lib/wave.py	Sun Mar 02 09:55:49 2014 +0100
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 When the setpos() and rewind() methods are not used, the seek()
 method is not  necessary.
 
+Mono and stereo files in 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit integer sample format
+are supported (linear PCM without any compression/decompression).
+
 This returns an instance of a class with the following public methods:
       getnchannels()  -- returns number of audio channels (1 for
                          mono, 2 for stereo)
@@ -41,9 +44,12 @@
 The open file pointer must have methods write(), tell(), seek(), and
 close().
 
+Mono and stereo files in 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit integer sample format
+are supported (linear PCM without any compression/decompression).
+
 This returns an instance of a class with the following public methods:
       setnchannels(n) -- set the number of channels
-      setsampwidth(n) -- set the sample width
+      setsampwidth(n) -- set the sample width to n bytes.
       setframerate(n) -- set the frame rate
       setnframes(n)   -- set the number of frames
       setcomptype(type, name)