Ping3 is a pure python3 version of ICMP ping implementation using raw socket.
Note that ICMP messages can only be sent from processes running as root.
The Python2 version originally from here
This version maintained at this github repo
pip install ping3>>> from ping3 import ping, verbose_ping
>>> ping('example.com') # Returns delay in seconds.
0.215697261510079666
>>> verbose_ping('example.com') # ping 4 times in a row.
ping 'example.com' ... 215ms
ping 'example.com' ... 216ms
ping 'example.com' ... 219ms
ping 'example.com' ... 217ms>>> ping('notexist.com') # If timed out (no reply), returns None
None
>>> ping('example.com', timeout=10) # Set timeout to 10 seconds. Default timeout=4
>>> verbose_ping('example.com', timeout=10) # set timeout to 10 second. Default timeout=4
>>> verbose_ping('example.com', count=10) # ping 10 times. Default count=4