looking for code that determines which ping command to use

[wavic]

I was going to offer Scapy but I know that @Scaperen prefers not to use additional modules and I didn't do it. The benefit is that with Scapy you get all of the ping respond not the ping's command interpretation.

[Skaperen]

I'm always asking myself: Is this a good Idea to rely on the OS.
I learned, sometimes it's better to have the implementation in the language itself as calling outside foreign programs.
But sometimes it's very cheap just to call a program, which does the work for you.

Maybe you want to have a own implementation of ping in your utilities package: https://github.com/samuel/python-ping/bl...er/ping.py

seems like a better alternative to me. i hope that implementation itself has no OS issues.

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if it's small enough Python code, i could insert it into my code rather than import a module that may also need to be installed.