Silver Fox's Space

For some strange reason I felt the urge to build something in Python on Thursday.

I am not really sure what brought it on,  I guess its just one of those random things.   I thought about trying to do two new things.  First I wanted to use a timer and second I wanted to try and get a system beep.  The best way I could think of combining these two elements would be to build a countdown timer that produces a beep when the time is up.

Here is the code for you to look at:

#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import threading

msg = ’Input Time In Minutes: ’
uin = raw_input(msg).strip()
intSecAsMin= int(uin) * 60

class Timer(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, seconds):
self.runTime = seconds
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
def run(self):
time.sleep(self.runTime)
print ’\a’
print ”Time Up!”

t = Timer(intSecAsMin)
t.start()

Sadly the beep part is not working.  I have tried one or two things but nothing seems to work.  I have also started a thread on Ubuntu Forums seeking help.  I am beginning to think the only way to produce an audio alert would be to have the python script play an mp3 file.  Not quite what I am after but an alternative.  Still,  its been a fun little program I wrote for no particular reason.   Learnt one or two things,  so not a complete waste of time.

Edit:  WordPress seems to have messed up the indintation and consiquently the code will now not run without some adjustments.