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Pythonista / os.system Ping
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Hello Guys,
I was planning to create a ping query via a python "script" with:
print(os.system('ping -c 5 localhost'))
but here I always get the message:
32512
which according to the net should mean that this command was not found... so I wanted to use:
which ping
to specify the path which didn't help either...
if I try the whole thing now in StaSh:
~/Documents/site-packages/stash/bin/ping -c 1 localhost ping -c 1 localhost
I get an output in each case:
ping localhost... got ping in 0.2782ms
could someone tell me what I am doing wrong or suggest another solution how I could reach my goal.
With kind regards
Kalystop.s.
Happy New Year to all! -
You can't use os.system in pythonista.
The stash ping command is based on a python implementation of ping.c.https://github.com/ywangd/stash/blob/master/bin/ping.py
(You have a copy of it inside your stash/bin folder)
You can copy that file to your project or site-packages, and use it directly by importing it. Or you might be able to use
from stash.bin import ping
But I have not tried that. You could also add that path to sys.path then import ping.
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@JonB
from stash.bin import ping
this looks like it works... when i try that:from stash.bin import ping print(ping)
i get:
<module 'stash.bin.ping' from '/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/xxx/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/stash/bin/ping.py'>
but i don't get it to work....
print(ping -c 1 localhost)
here i get the error
invalid Syntax
I don't know how to use it correctly :(
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Or asked another way:
I have a NAS running a MySQL server I wanted to check with the ping if the server would be on or off.or is there a better solution how to check this ?
and could one achieve with a ping that the NAS would not go into sleep mode ?
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@DavinE try
from stash.bin.ping import verbose_ping verbose_ping('localhost', timeout=2, count=4, interval=1.0)
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@DavinE 👍