On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
Python is just printing the ascii bell character: some environments
will
interpret that as a request to make a beep, some will do things like
flashing the whole screen, others just output a graphic character.
Python
doesn't know what your environment will do.
Agreed.
But invoking the standard system beep is such a basic function that it
ought to be easier than this. I'm pretty sure it's a single OS call
on all platforms. On OS X, for example, it's
void NSBeep(void);
declared in NSGraphics.h. I'm sure it's something similarly simple on
other platforms.
Where's the standard place for this sort of OS-abstraction function,
outside the standard Python library? I'm talking about something more
light-weight than wx, QT, or TK; something that just wraps standard
functions (like the system beep) and works in console apps or in any
flavor of GUI app. Is there such a module out there somewhere?
Best,
- Joe
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