An ICMP ping is the most common type of network scanning you have ever encountered. It is very easy to open a command-line prompt or Terminal and type ping www.google.com. How difficult is that from inside a Python program? This recipe shows you an example of a Python ping.
You can lazily write a Python script that calls the system ping command-line tool, as follows:
import subprocess
import shlex
command_line = "ping -c 1 www.google.com"
args = shlex.split(command_line)
try:
subprocess.check_call(args,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,\
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
print ("Google web server is up!")
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
print ("Failed to get ping.") However, in many circumstances, the system's ping executable may not be available or may be inaccessible. In this case, we need a pure Python script to do that ping. Note...