Re: Checking for network connectivity

2008-06-19 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
>From the socket module, you could use the s.connect(address) function. It returns a 0 on success or the value of errno on failure. Regards, Jeff On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:36 PM, felciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > Is there a clean pythonic way to check for network connectivity? I

Checking for network connectivity

2008-06-19 Thread felciano
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