identifying live hosts on a network

[Aahz]

In article <069f821d-1b73-4ed9-b298-09e7c0548122 at p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
 <hunteroakesgun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am new to python and am having trouble coming up with a script that
>idenifies all the live hosts on my network.

First you need to define what constitutes a "live host".
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