On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:00:05 +0200, Gelonida N wrote: > How do others handle simple beeps? > > I just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a > very long running non GUI application.
Why? Do you hate your users? > What I do at the moment is: > > For Windows I use winsound.Beep > > For Linux I create some raw data and pipe it into sox's 'play' command. > > I don't consider this very elegant. There is no cross-platform way to play a beep. Every few years, people complain that Python doesn't have a standard way to play a simple alert sound. Why ask for volunteers to write and maintain the code, and suddenly they go silent. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
