beeping portably

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Jim wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to emit beeps.  The twists are that (1) I hope to have control
> over the frequency of the beeps and their duration and (2) I'd like the
> solution to be portable across Linux, Windows, and OS X.
> 
> I've done some searching of this group and the solutions that people
> have offered in the past seem not to satisfy both points. For instance,
> that I can tell, "\a" or curses.beep() doesn't give you control over
> the frequency or duration.  I also looked at wxWindows but there were
> warnings about the MMedia module ("status is unclear") that made me
> leery.

Maybe pygame helps? You can play sound with it, and the sdl abstracts from
directx and whatever linux uses. 

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch