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2006-01-13, 16:58
ok, just starting with python... i've made a very simple script which loads up a playlist off my computer on startup, randomizes it, etc, all works well... but if my computer is not on, it pops up a password dialog as if it's there but the password is not right. anyway what i want to do is ping my machine, if it responds, load the playlist, if it doesn't, play something off the hd. all very easy except how do i ping?
cheers for any help...
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to determine connection status you should just spin off a thread that tries to connect to the machine via a socket and have that thread timeout after a while. this is the way most scripts try to connect to a web site (my cnn script has an example).
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yep well i thought about doing that... pinging would be much easier & faster though if you ask me. plus of course you need to have some kinda server listening to a port on the machine. still doable though, i checked out your script, might implement it that way -- cheers.
