On Mar 23, 2013 2:24 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/03/13 12:48, Phil wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity how can a beep sound be generated? >> >> 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: >> >> import Tkinter >> Tkinter.Tk().bell() >> >> 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. > > > > 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"
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