[Tutor] pinging from python

[Darrell Brogdon]

For future reference:

fp = os.popen('ping -c 4 yahoo.com')
ping_results = fp.read()


I'm not sure how to explicitly close this connection yet (see the 
"valueOf() equivalent" thread)


Deirdre Saoirse wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, JD, Venugopal (CORP, CIM, OMC) wrote:
> 
> 
>> is it possible to ping to a host using python and redirect the output
>> to a comma seperated value flat file.
> 
> First of all, this is a good way to make enemies -- ping *can* be used as
> a hostile denial-of-service. Please don't use it this way.
> 
> Yes, there are several ways of doing this:
> 
> 1) On Unix, you can redirect the status of an external command -- see the
> commands module.
> 
> 2) You can re-write the c-based "ping" program in python. Source code for
> ping is available in numerous places, including with most Linux
> distributions.
> 


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