Testing for Internet Connection

[Alex Marandon]

Alexnb wrote:
> I am wondering, is there a simple way to test for Internet connection? If
> not, what is the hard way :p

Trying to fetch the homepage from a few major websites (Yahoo, Google, 
etc.)? If all of them are failing, it's very likely that the connection 
is down. You can use urllib2 [1] to accomplish that.

[1] <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html>