How to ping in Python?

[Sybren Stuvel]

Nico Grubert enlightened us with:
> I just need to "ping" a machine to see if its answering. What's the
> best way to do it?

To do a real ICMP ping, you need raw sockets, which are turned off on
Windows and reserved for root on other systems. You could try to
connect to an unused port, and see how fast a RST packet is returned.

Sybren
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