Sometimes, we want to ping servers in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to ping servers in Python.
How to ping servers in Python?
To ping servers in Python, we can run the ping command with subprocess.
For instance, we write
import platform
import subprocess
def ping(host):
param = '-n' if platform.system().lower()=='windows' else '-c'
command = ['ping', param, '1', host]
return subprocess.call(command) == 0
to define the ping function.
In it, we get the ping param given the platform name with
param = '-n' if platform.system().lower()=='windows' else '-c'
Then we create the command list with the command and the arguments for it.
Next, we call subprocess.call with the command and check if it has a 0 exit code with ==.
Conclusion
To ping servers in Python, we can run the ping command with subprocess.
