How do you make the python bell sound ring more than once?

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I started reading about python yesterday. I am reading a book about python for absolute beginners. It is somewhat old, but I got to the part about printing "\a". The book says you could make the program sound the bell multiple times, but my computer only rings it once. I am using Python 2.7.12, and the book uses an earlier version. Is that why? Or does it only work in Python 3? I have Windows 10 on Lenovo laptop. Right now I have: print "\a\a"; print '\a' raw_input("\n\nPress enter to exit")

On my machine (OSX with Python 2.7.11), print "\a\a"; print '\a' causes the bell to ring three times, as expected. — Curt F.
– Curt F., Commented Nov 20, 2016 at 13:30
Just tried that. Didn't work unfortunately. Guess I better be more specific. I am running on Windows 10, with a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. If that helps at all. — Logan
– Logan, Commented Nov 20, 2016 at 13:35
when you open console, and write following command echo [Alt-7][Alt-7][Alt-7] how many beeps do you hear? Alt- left alt key, 7- numeric keyboard 7 — lukbl
– lukbl, Commented Nov 20, 2016 at 13:44

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:13:44Z

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as stated in this answer : Here

The reason it doesn't beep is that \a (or ^G) is the terminal bell code; it's up to the program handling stdout to turn that into a sound. Terminal.app will play a sound (unless you configure it to do "visual bell" instead, of turn it off entirely)

You can also try

as stated Here

import sys sys.stdout.write('\a') sys.stdout.flush()

Hope this helps.

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answered Nov 20, 2016 at 13:34

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Logan Over a year ago

Your answer helps me understand why this isn't working. However, I didn't originally specify that I have Windows. Is there something different for that? Or something I need to install? The sys code only rang one bell again. Thanks for the help.

Michael Yousrie Over a year ago

I think the problem is with the command window itself in windows ( i'm not a very expert in CMD since I'm a Linux user ) maybe there is some configuration for it to sound the bell more than once ? try researching that.

Taufiq Rahman · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-20 13:42:16Z

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There is an alternate way on making a beep sound multiple times:

import winsound Freq = 2500 # Set Frequency To 2500 Hertz Dur = 1000 # Set Duration To 1000 ms == 1 second winsound.Beep(Freq,Dur) winsound.Beep(Freq,Dur)

answered Nov 20, 2016 at 13:42

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Logan Over a year ago

I'm guessing something is wrong with my python program because I can't even import winsound. The variables don't change colors either.

Taufiq Rahman Over a year ago

Maybe you don't have it installed.Type and run this on a terminal/cmd: pip install winsound.

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