[New-bugs-announce] [issue13740] winsound.SND_NOWAIT ignored on modern Windows platforms

[Jelle Geerts]

New submission from Jelle Geerts <jellegeerts at gmail.com>:

As the attached example Python script explains, the winsound.SND_NOWAIT flag doesn't do anything, at least not on modern Windows platforms.

The updated MSDN documentation for PlaySound() states that SND_NOWAIT is not supported (it is ignored).
Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd743680%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Assuming that the flag is supported on older Windows versions, I propose that the Python documentation is updated to state the same thing for SND_NOWAIT that it states for the SND_PURGE flag, which is the following:
"Note: This flag is not supported on modern Windows platforms."

Even though it might be that SND_NOWAIT was in fact never supported on any Windows version, the proposed change is at least better than not doing anything about it.

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components: Windows
files: example.py
messages: 150915
nosy: bughunter2
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: winsound.SND_NOWAIT ignored on modern Windows platforms
type: behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24182/example.py

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