ping with python?

[Rupert Kolb]

Jeff Bauer wrote:
>>This page http://www.python.org/~jeremy/python.html has
>>an implementation of ping.
> 
> 
> In addition to Jeremy's code, Matthew Cowles has also
> written a Python implementation of ping:
> 
>   http://www.visi.com/~mdc/pythonstuff.html

Thanks for the links.

Now I have the problem, that both implementations need root 
permissions to execute it under unix.
(I tried the Net::Ping. There I do not have to be root, to execute a 
ping. And I found no SUID program in the perl installation directory.)

Any ideas or one other implementation?
... and still I prefere python ;-)

Rupert