[Mr6 wrote]
> It's a weird thing. But if I run print "\a" from idle it does not work.
> But if I save as a file, say, sound.py. Then run that with python
> sound.py it does.
>
> Why is that?
The IDLE stdout/stderr handling is not invoking a system bell when it
sees '\a'. I suppose that one coul
Bengt Richter wrote:
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
Serves me right for blindlyrunning things from IDLE.
This does work (tested on WinXP only):
import os
os.system('echo \a')
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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
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
Trent Mick wrote:
> I suspect that you are misinterpreting failure as success here. This is
> probably only resulting in a bell from the shell when it complains that
> it doesn't know of any command called "\a" to run.
Contrarily, \a is in fact the escape sequence for, as the OP put it,
the system
[Mr6 wrote]
> Matt wrote:
> >Try:
> >import os
> >os.system('\a')
> >
>
> Ta, that's got it.
I suspect that you are misinterpreting failure as success here. This is
probably only resulting in a bell from the shell when it complains that
it doesn't know of any command called "\a" to run.
Trent
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Matt wrote:
Try:
import os
os.system('\a')
Ta, that's got it.
B
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[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
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Try:
import os
os.system('\a')
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