Sound programming?

[Matthew Baulch]

Will Ware wrote:

> Somebody was asking me this evening if there's an easy way to
> play a tone of a specified frequency and duration in Python.
> I didn't know off the top of my head. I've since poked around
> the web a bit and it appears like the Snack Sound Toolkit
> (http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/) might be a good way to go.
> One of its virtues is being cross-platform, which I suspect is
> among his unstated wishes. Are there any other options?
> 

There aren't any functions (that i'm aware of) of that nature in the 
standard python libs (except for manipulation of *.wav, *.au) .etc. Of 
the options like gump and pyXMMS (not cross platform), i'd consider 
snack to be one of the best although being wrapped around tcl like tk grrr!.