Script to ping computer

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This is working for me in windows. Although I just realized the OP asked for response time too. @c.bertulli looks like he has the best answer.

import os

def ping(ip):
     return os.system("ping " + ip) == 0

print ping("8.8.8.8")
print ping("1.2.3.4")
print ping("4.4.4.4")

If you are running in Unix you’ll need to change the first part of the os.system call to ping -c 5 to limit the number of ping attempts.

This should print out the results of the command and also return a boolean value for each function call. Results should be True, False, False

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