howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

From	Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com>
Subject	howto do a robust simple cross platform beep
Date	2012-07-14 03:00 +0200
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2110.1342227619.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Hi,


I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform.


I tried the simplest approach (just printing the BEL character '\a' 
chr(7) to the console.


This fails on my Ubuntu 12.04 host, as the pcspkr is in the list of the 
blacklisted kernel modules.

I found another snippet trying to push a sine wave  directly to /dev/audio

but I don't have write permissions to /dev/audio.

Other solutions seem to suggest to play a wav file, but of course first 
I had to write code creating me a wav file.

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.


Thanks for any info.


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.

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howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-07-14 03:00 +0200
  Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-14 03:19 +0000
    Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> - 2012-07-14 19:54 +0200
    Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-15 04:49 +1000
      Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-15 02:39 +0200
        Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-15 11:07 +1000
  Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-07-14 11:43 -0700
  Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-07-14 11:43 -0700
  Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com - 2012-07-14 18:15 -0700
    Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 23:39 +0200
    Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 07:52 +1000
  Re: howto do a robust simple  cross platform  beep rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com - 2012-07-14 18:15 -0700

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