How to "ping" a host ?

[Gillou]

Alex,

Thanks for the reply but it's a 404 URL.
And I did not find pointers in that field from http://www.python.org/~jeremy
(interesting stuff anyway)

Cheers

--Gillou

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> a écrit dans le message news:
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> "Gillou" <nospam at bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
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> > I'm looking for a pythonic "ping" like module. Did not find (or search
> > correctly ?) in the doc.
> > I mean something (non blocking) that replies to "is there a live host
> > connected at this IP address ?"
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> http://www.python.org/~jeremy/ping.tar.gz
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> Alex
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