On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Timmie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear fellow Pythonistas, > is it possible to check with Python whether a computer is connected to the > internet or not?
Yes. That's the short answer anyway. > I don't not find a module which can do such a thing like 'ping'? you could use the os module to execute the system command "ping" > And how do I make my python scipts that use urllib to recognize the windows > operating system proxy settings? I'm not particularly sure, but at first glance http://www.google.com/search?q=python+urllib+windows+proxy seems to have some useful looking links. HTH, Wayne > > > Thanks in advance and kind regards, > Timmie > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi
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