icowan / python3-ping

Pure Python version of ICMP ping

Pure Python3 ping (ICMP)

Running this requires root access or raw socket access. Only runs on Python3. Tested on Python 3.4.3.

Usage

To run:

import ping

# delay = ping.do_one(dest_addr, timeout)

#pings github.com with a 2s timeout and returns the delay
delay = ping.do_one('github.com', 2)

Install

You can simply import the ping module or in the case of a bigger project with requirements.txt, use pip install git+git://github.com/corentone/python3-ping.git#egg=ping.

== License == License from Matthew Dixon Cowles is GNU GPL v2 so this repository is as well in GNU GPL v2

Originally from http://svn.pylucid.net/pylucid/CodeSnippets/ping.py This version maintained at http://github.com/samuel/python-ping