ping with python?

[John Abel]

This page http://www.python.org/~jeremy/python.html has an 
implementation of ping.

Regards

John

Rupert Kolb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to write a tool, which needs (among other things) to ping some 
> hosts.
> The "ping" should work at linux, solaris and windows (i.e. to be 
> plattform independant).
> In former times I usually used net::ping ;-)
>
> Is there a plattform independant "ping" in python?
>
> Rupert Kolb
>
>