System bell

[Mr6]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:06:07 -0500, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Trent Mick wrote:
>>
>>>[Baza wrote]
>>>
>>>
>>>>Am I right in thinking that >>>print "\a" should sound the system, 'bell'?
>>>
>>>
>>>It works on the shell on Windows for me (WinXP).
>>>
>>>Trent
>>>
>>
>>Interesting. From a Cygwin bash shell I got an elegant little dingish 
>>sort of a beep (my volume control was set kind of low). I then ran the 
>>same code in a Windows shell and nearly deafened myself. It appears that 
>>the volume control doesn't affect the Windows XP commans shell beep - 
>>even muting the Windows audio output doesn't stop it (though it does 
>>stop the Cygwin beep). This could cause heart attacks!
>>
> 
>

It's a weird thing. But if I run print "\a" from idle it does not work. 
But if I save as a file, say, sound.py. Then run that with python 
sound.py it does.

Why is that?

B