On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:13 +0000, Peter Pearson wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:40:53 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: > > > > 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 ? > > Many people have suggested sending an ASCII 07 to your > terminal window, but sometimes you don't have a terminal > window. > > Then there's the question of using the sound card versus > using the PC speaker. Too complicated for me. > > I used a kluge: a short C program that beeps the way I want, > in this case using ioctl(fd,KDMKTONE,arg) on /dev/tty0 (this > is Linux). The program has enough privileges to execute > even when run by unprivileged users, and of course can be > invoked by whatever language you're working in. >
If you're already using /dev/tty0, why not just open a file object on /dev/tty0, and write "\a"=="\x07" to that. No C required. #!/usr/bin/env python nonstdout = file("/dev/tty0") nonstdout.write("\a") nonstdout.flush() (same permissions caveats apply) On the other hand, the OP was looking for a cross-platform solution. I don't think Windows has a /dev/tty0, but I don't work on windows, so I can't help with cross platform issues. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list