[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac equivalent of winsound

[Todd Koym]

What is the easiest way to play a short sound file (aiff or wav) in
MacPython?

I have an application that requires short sound notifications. Winsound
serves this purpose quite well for Windows, but I'm having trouble
identifying the equivalent module/package to use for the Mac. I'm running
on OS X (Jaguar), but I have to use the Carbon version of MacPython (the
Python interpreter is embedded in a Carbon app). The playing of the sound
file must not open its own user interface/window.

PyGame seems like a lot of work/overkill for my purpose
Snack requires Tkinter - which doesn't run under Carbon

The snippet below (using Carbon.Res and Carbon.Snd) works, but I need to
play sound files, not just snd resources. It seems like I need to use
SndStartFilePlay (from Carbon's Sound Manager), but I can't seem to find
it.

# Show off SndPlay (and some resource manager functions).
# Get a list of all 'snd ' resources in the system and play them all.

from Carbon.Res import *
from Carbon.Snd import *

ch = SndNewChannel(0, 0, None)
print "Channel:", ch

type = 'snd '

for i in range(CountResources(type)):
             r = GetIndResource(type, i+1)
             print r.GetResInfo(), r.size
             if r.GetResInfo()[0] == 1:
                         print "Skipping simple beep"
                         continue
             ch.SndPlay(r, 0)