howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:00:05 +0200, Gelonida N wrote:

> How do others handle simple beeps?
> 
> I just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a
> very long running non GUI application.

Why? Do you hate your users?


> What I do at the moment is:
> 
> For Windows I use winsound.Beep
> 
> For Linux I create some raw data and pipe it into sox's 'play' command.
> 
> I don't consider this very elegant.

There is no cross-platform way to play a beep.

Every few years, people complain that Python doesn't have a standard way 
to play a simple alert sound. Why ask for volunteers to write and 
maintain the code, and suddenly they go silent.


-- 
Steven