Is there any way to save a CHOP channel as an audio file via Python in H16.5 ?

I can right click on the CHOP and Save->Data Channles and give the filename a .wav extension and it writes a correct audio wav file, but it looks like hou.ChopNode.saveClip() method isn't implemented in 16.5 and (maybe) is in 17.0.. ?

Would that be the only way to get a sound file out through Python?

I think you can just wrap opsave hscript command in hou.hscript() call

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/hscript.html [www.sidefx.com]
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/commands/opsave.html [www.sidefx.com]

I'm always amazed at how long the python api has been around and how much hscript functionality still hasn't made it over..

Good call on hscript- that works great!