On 2016-02-18, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 09:26:58AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: >> I'd like to test (inside a python 3 program) whether the VPN is >> running or not. The only thing I can think of so far is to use >> subprocess to run the 'ifconfig' command, then check its output for >> 'tun0'. Is there a better way? > > you didn't wrote, which system (OS) you want to use - based on > the "ifconfig" and "tun0" keywords, possible that's a Linux.
Oops, sorry! But your educated guess is right. :-) > I think that the psutil modul could be better for you for this > task: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil/ > > and see the "Network" section. if 'tun0' in psutil.net_if_addrs(): # vpn is running Brilliant! I've used psutil for something else, but I didn't know it did that too. My excuse is that the version on my system was 2.2.1, which does not do that, so I installed the newer version with pip3. Thanks for pointing me to that. -- XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve the problem, use more. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
