System bell

[Trent Mick]

[Mr6 wrote]
> 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?

The IDLE stdout/stderr handling is not invoking a system bell when it
sees '\a'. I suppose that one could consider that a bug. If I were an
IDLE developer/maintainer, I don't think I'd rate that as a very high
prioirty bug though. :)

Trent

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