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? What do you mean? And what version dependency are you referring to? Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com > So it looks that Python version independency is even worse than OS > independency ;-) > I'll take a look at wxPython and Pygame if there's something useful. > > anyway thanks, > Stef > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list