Hi -- Is there a clean pythonic way to check for network connectivity? I have a script that needs to run periodically on a laptop to create a local cache of some network files. I would like it to fail gracefully when disconnected, as well as issue a warning if it hasn't been able to connect for X minutes / hours.
I currently just use try / except to catch the network errors when the first call times out, but the timeout takes a while, and this doesn't feel like the right design because technically this isn't an exception -- it is expected behavior. Is there a better way to do this (and still be reasonably portable)? Thanks, Ramon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
