M.N.A.Smadi wrote: >hi; > >I just want to test that a given website is up or not from a python >script. I thought of using wget as an os command. Any better ideas? > > urllib
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html If you only want to test if the HTTP port is open or not: socket http://docs.python.org/lib/module-socket.html Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list