Best way to check if there is internet?

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 25/02/2022 12.07, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:

> I have been following language feature proposals from various
> languages. Some decide to avoid Python's route,
> but others have been trying hard to catch up with Python.
> One gleaming example is the switch case. JS recently proposed pattern
> matching, referencing Python and explaining why the proposal
> is a cool treatment of the usecase.

I'm not clear on what you mean here. JavaScript has had a
switch/case construct since 1.2, in the late 1990s. As far
as I can determine, python has no such thing, since PEP-3103
was rejected in 2007.

> As a side note, if by scripting we mean OS commands,
> then Python started as a sysadmin language.

I never knew this. Where can I read more about this origin?

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Michael F. Stemper
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