Jeffrey Barish schreef: > What is the easiest way to beep the console from a Python program (i.e., > to do the same thing as echo -e \a)? import sys sys.stdout.write('\a') or if you don't mind a newline: print '\a' -- Peter Kleiweg L:NL,af,da,de,en,ia,nds,no,sv,(fr,it) S:NL,de,en,(da,ia) info: http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/ls.html