> I went to the language reference which also seems to indicate I should get > a > sound with exactly what the author is saying. The exact line is: > > print "\a"
Escape characters are terminal settings so you need to be running in a terminal. Start up a command window and run the program there it should work. Running in IDLE or PythonwIn, which are windows environments, won't work. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor