On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/15/2012 03:15 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:> On Friday, July > 13, 2012 8:00:05 PM UTC-5, gelonida wrote: >>> I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. [...] I >>> just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a >>> very long running non GUI application. >> >> I can see a need for this when facing a non GUI interface. > That's exactly my usecase. > A rather tiny script running for hours and telling the users when results > are ready.
Sounds reasonable. I'd be inclined to solve just my own problem, though; work it out for the platforms you use, and don't worry too much about the rest. But that's because I'm lazy :) > Could I use github (as O know git already)? You certainly could, though that doesn't help with the whole "building a module" part. (And I can't help there either, never done it. Sorry.) There are quite a few ways of creating an alert such as you describe. The easiest way may be to play a .WAV file rather than a system beep; there are a number of different options on different platforms, so your module could be written in pure Python and basically wrap the whole lot up into a huge bunch of "except ImportError" checks. Here's a few ways: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307305/play-a-sound-with-python Burying all that complexity behind a simple "play_sound()" function would be handy, and you could easily start with just 2-3 options and add more later. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
