Question

I’m trying to make a siren sound in python with beeps, but had no success..

I’m trying something like

winsound.Beep(700,500)
winsound.Beep(710,500)
winsound.Beep(720,500)
...

It’s a better way to do it? And play it?

Without external files…

Thx

Answer 1

Record a high quality siren as a WAV file (Audacity is a nice tool for this task, and might even provide the right mix of sound generators for this) and use PlaySound.

winsound.PlaySound('siren.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME)

You could also bundle it into the script as a string to avoid having a separate file:

siren = base64.b64decode('''
    <base64-encoded data>
    ''')
winsound.PlaySound(siren, winsound.SND_MEMORY)

To create the data for siren, run the WAV file through a base64 encoder (e.g., here is a basic command-line tool — the download includes a win32 exe) and paste the output into the siren string. Base64 isn’t a requirement, by the way; it’s just a convenient way to embed binary data into a Python source file.