Testing whether the VPN is running?

[Adam Funk]

I'd like to test (inside a python 3 program) whether the VPN is
running or not.  The only thing I can think of so far is to use
subprocess to run the 'ifconfig' command, then check its output for
'tun0'.  Is there a better way?

Thanks.


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