[Tutor] No beep from winsound.Beep(500, 500)

Richard D. Moores rdmoores at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 11:55:00 CET 2009


On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:36, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard -  It works (in Python 2.6, mind you) on my 64-bit Win7 machine, but
> I suspect that that may be because of Microsoft's compatibility twiddling on
> the back end.  I Googled, and there seem to be a number of reports of people
> having trouble with 64-bit Vista and winsound.Beep().  I suspect that
> allowing programs access to the system speaker is one of those things that
> MS decided to cut out in Vista, but then decided to bring back in 7.

Marc, that's actually encouraging, because I'll be getting the Win 7
upgrade for the laptop in January. I'll just wait for that.

Thanks,

Dick


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