Ping Implementation in Python

[Chris Mellon]

On Dec 20, 2007 9:41 AM, Mrown <mathewbrown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I was wondering if there was a ping implementation written in
> Python.  I'd rather using a Python module that implements ping in a
> platform/OS-independent way than rely on the underlying OS, especially
> as every OS has a different implementation.  Furthermore, if you're
> going to ping a large number of IPs, using a module would probably be
> a lot faster.  Any ideas if such a module exists?  Thanks.


There's no point in having a script that pings things, especially
large numbers of IPs. If you really want to do network scanning other
tools for that already exist.