Beeps substituted by synth voice, which is c00ler and more explicit about what happened

pymongoexport_csv.py

@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ else:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Initialize some variables
-duration = 1
-freq = 440
 script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 output_dir = os.path.join(script_dir, "pymongodump", args.database)
 header_file = os.path.join(script_dir, "config", "header.txt")
@@ -100,7 +98,7 @@ try:
     writer_worker.start()
 except Exception:
     logger.error("There was a failure in the filesystem writer", exc_info=True)
-    os.system("play -nq -t alsa synth {} sine {}".format(duration, freq))
+    os.system("spd-say 'Something really bad happened!'")
     sys.exit(1)
 
 # Launch pool of workers to perform the format conversion
@@ -110,12 +108,12 @@ try:
 except utils.ExceptionAtPage as exc:
     logger.error("Error detected at page {}".format(exc.error_page))
     task_queue.put((exc.error_page, "ERROR"))
-    os.system("play -nq -t alsa synth {} sine {}".format(duration, freq))
+    os.system("spd-say 'Something really bad happened!'")
     sys.exit(1)
 except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt):
     logger.error("Error detected", exc_info=True)
     task_queue.put((-2, "ERROR"))
-    os.system("play -nq -t alsa synth {} sine {}".format(duration, freq))
+    os.system("spd-say 'Something really bad happened!'")
     sys.exit(1)
 
 task_queue.put((-1, "END"))
@@ -129,7 +127,7 @@ try:
 except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt):
     logger.error("The collection was converted correctly to CSV, but something"
                  + " failed when generating the metadata file", exc_info=True)
-    os.system("play -nq -t alsa synth {} sine {}".format(duration, freq))
+    os.system("spd-say 'Something really bad happened!'")
     sys.exit(1)
 if globals.timing:
     logger.critical(
@@ -139,5 +137,5 @@ if globals.timing:
         "Total execution time: {}s"
         .format(time.time() - time0))
 
-os.system("play -nq -t alsa synth {} sine {}".format(duration, freq))
+os.system('spd-say "Conversion completed successfully!"')
 logger.info("Conversion completed successfully!!")