On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:06:07 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Trent Mick wrote: >> [Baza wrote] >> >>>Am I right in thinking that >>>print "\a" should sound the system, 'bell'? >> >> >> It works on the shell on Windows for me (WinXP). >> >> Trent >> >Interesting. From a Cygwin bash shell I got an elegant little dingish >sort of a beep (my volume control was set kind of low). I then ran the >same code in a Windows shell and nearly deafened myself. It appears that >the volume control doesn't affect the Windows XP commans shell beep - >even muting the Windows audio output doesn't stop it (though it does >stop the Cygwin beep). This could cause heart attacks! > Another couple of data points: Running python 2.3/MSVC6 or python 2.4/MinGW in an NT4 console window, print '\a' beeps via the PC internal speaker (like winsound.Beep). Running the bash shell of msys, echo -e '\a' also beeps via the PC speaker. These are not affected by any volume control that I know of. But running py2.3 idle, print '\a' displays a square empty box (which I take to be the symbol for "unprintable" characters). That seems like an oversight in terminal emulation. Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list