ping

[David Reed]

On Apr 14, 2006, at 8:04 PM, david brochu jr wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> Unfortunately substituting os.system with os.popen results in the  
> output being:
>
> <open file 'ping www.google.com
> ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650>
> <open file 'ping www.boston.com
> ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650>
> <open file 'ping www.espn.com
> ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650>
> <open file 'ping www.redsox.com
> ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650>
>
> instead of giving me the ping stats "pinging etc etc, packets sent  
> 4 recienved 4 etc)
>
> Any idea around this?


os.popen gives you a file-like object that you can then read.

 >>> import os
 >>> f = os.popen('ping -c 5 www.google.com')
 >>> text = f.read()
 >>> print text
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.167.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=20.855 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=26.262 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=22.300 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=23.957 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=22.056 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.855/23.086/26.262/1.871 ms

 >>>

Dave