pingpy 0.1.0

A cross-platform Python wrapper around the `ping` utility.

PingPy

A cross platform wrapper for the ping utility written in Python.

Description

pingpy is a Python interface that uses subprocess to call the platform's ping utility. The pingpy CLI accepts a subset of ping's args and unifies the interface (i.e. -c now always means "count" with pingpy), and translates the pingpy args to the platform's ping implementation.

Usage

Run pingpy --help to see usage instructions.

usage: pingpy [-h] [-c COUNT] [-v] [-d] [-f FILE] [-o] [-a] [-s SLEEP] target

Ping a specified target with options for repeat count, debugging & verbosity level, and optional logging to file.

positional arguments:
  target                Target IP address or hostname to ping

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c COUNT, --count COUNT
                        Number of times to ping. Default: 3, 0=infinite.
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose output
  -d, --debug           Enable debug logging
  -f FILE, --file FILE  Path to the log file
  -o, --overwrite       Overwrite the log file if it exists
  -a, --append          Append to the log file if it exists
  -s SLEEP, --sleep SLEEP
                        Number of seconds to wait between pings. Default: 1.