how to get a beep, OS independent ?

[Joe Strout]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Of course, if you're volunteering to write such a standard system beep
> for Python, I for one would be grateful.

I am.  But where should I put it?  Assuming we don't want to wait for  
the (understandably) lengthy and contentious process required to add  
something to the Python system libraries, where would be the next best  
place for this sort of simple OS abstraction layer?

Thanks,
- Joe