January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
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You can lazily write a Python script that calls the system ping command-line tool, as follows:
import subprocess
import shlex
command_line = "ping -c 1 www.google.com"
args = shlex.split(command_line)
try:
subprocess.check_call(args,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,\
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
print ("Google web server is up!")
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
print ("Failed to get ping.")
However, in many circumstances, the system's ping executable may not be available or may be inaccessible. In this case, we need a pure Python script to do that ping. Note that this script needs to be run as a superuser or administrator.
Listing 3.2 shows the ICMP ping, as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter ...