Never mind, this belongs in the PC subdirectory,

and besides Toby Dickenson sent me a more functional
(if lower level) wrapper around PlaySound.

Modules/winsound.c

-/*
- * SOUND
- * $Id$
- *
- * play sound on a windows platform
- *
- * history:
- * 99-02-02 fl  created
- *
- * Copyright (c) 1999 by Secret Labs AB.
- * Copyright (c) 1999 by Fredrik Lundh.
- *
- * fredrik@pythonware.com
- * http://www.pythonware.com
- *
- * --------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
- * its associated documentation for any purpose and without fee is
- * hereby granted.  This software is provided as is.
- * --------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-
-#include "Python.h"
-
-#include "windows.h"
-#include "mmsystem.h"
-
-static PyObject*
-_play(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
-{
-    int result;
-    
-    /* first argument is a string that should contain the contents of
-       a WAV file.  second argument should be non-zero to wait for the
-       sound to complete. */
-
-    char *data = NULL;
-    int bytes;
-    int wait = 0;
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|s#i", &data, &bytes, &wait))
-	return NULL;
-
-    result = PlaySound(data, NULL, (SND_MEMORY|SND_NOWAIT|SND_NODEFAULT) |
-                       (wait ? 0 : SND_ASYNC));
-
-    return Py_BuildValue("i", result);
-}
-
-static PyObject*
-_stop(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
-{
-    if (!PyArg_NoArgs(args))
-	return NULL;
-
-    return Py_BuildValue("i", PlaySound(NULL, NULL, 0));
-}
-
-static PyMethodDef _functions[] = {
-    {"play", _play, 1},
-    {"stop", _stop, 0},
-    {NULL, NULL}
-};
-
-void
-#ifdef WIN32
-__declspec(dllexport)
-#endif
-initwinsound()
-{
-    Py_InitModule("winsound", _functions);
-}