built-in ping functionality?

[Michael Hudson]

Alexander Stirzel <alexander.stirzel at daimlerchrysler.com> writes:

> I wonder if there's a built-in ping function available in some Python
> module. I didn't find anything in the module descriptions. 

Nope.  There's one here:

    http://www.python.org/~jhylton/python.html

but it might be a bit old now (I've never used it).

Cheers,
M.

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