[Tutor] Help with ping...

[johnathon hornbeck]

I want to write something that would just take a url and ping it. Here is 
the code that I have.

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

url = raw_input("Please enter the address you would like to ping:")

print "now pinging %s\n" % url

os.system("ping %s") % url #note I have tried this many different ways so I 
know
                           #the syntax is wrong

John Hornbeck
Linux Instructor, Great Plains Technology Center
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