> Just because you could ping with ICMP packets doesn't mean you could > do anything with the machine. I assume that you are connecting to > do something on the machine. Just wrap what you are trying to do > in try: block. It will either succeed or fail. Handle the exeption.
And the other way round: just because you can't ping a machine doesn't mean you can't do anything with it - a Firewall might just have snipped away all the ICMP-packets. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
