On 08/03/2010 02:41, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is the best pratice way to detect internet connectivity under Windows (using Python 2.6) simply to attempt to access a known internet website using urllib or urlib2 wrapped in a try/except construct?
Well, in theory you could use the Internet API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383996%28VS.85%29.aspx which is exposed via the win32inet module: http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/win32inet.html but I'd just do a socket connection to port 80 (or some known port on some known server) with a reasonable timeout. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
