[Tutor] Beep sound

[Bod Soutar]

On Mar 23, 2013 2:24 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> On 23/03/13 12:48, Phil wrote:
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>> Just out of curiosity how can a beep sound be generated?
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>> My interest in this came about because echo -e '\a' no longer works.
Also print '\a' doesn't work, presumably for the same reason. The following
is also mute:
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>> import Tkinter
>> Tkinter.Tk().bell()
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>> Print '\a', under Idle, causes a bell icon to be displayed so it seems
that the lack of a beep is due to a system setting.
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> Would you like us to guess what system you are running? Linux, Mac OS,
Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, something else? My guess is... Windows
XP. Am I close?
>
I'm gonna guess Ubuntu, in which case the system beep is probably disabled
system wide. Google "ubuntu enable disable system beep"

Bodsda
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