On Dec 7, 7:49 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Rainy wrote: > > >>> On Dec 6, 3:40 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> hello, > > >>>> I want to give a small beep, > >>>> for windows there's message-beep, > >>>> and there seems to be something like " curses" , > >>>> but that package seems to be totally broken in P2.5 for windows. > > >>>> Any other suggestions ? > > >>>> thanks, > >>>> Stef Mientki > > >>> For win there's winsound, you have to check sys.platform and do > >>> what's necessary for the platform in question. In linux I think > >>> you can just print '\a' (or does that only work in terminals?). > >>> If you know that ext. speakers are always on, you can do a nicer > >>> beep by using some wav file, in linux it's probably easiest to > >>> use an external program to play it, like wavplay. Basically, > >>> there is no single answer, it depends on circumstances. > >>> -- > >>>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > >> '\a' or chr(7) prints an inverted "BEL". > > > Inverted bell? > > In the output window (stdout) which is black letters on white background, > it prints "bell" in white letters with a black background.> What do you > mean? And what version dependency are you > > referring to? > > Well some of you actually hear something, > I don't, > so I expect that the Python version differs.
Works for me on WinXP, Python 2.5: C:\>python -c "print chr(7)" makes a beep. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
