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This is a wrapper to call ping from Python and continuously parse its output. It can extract the ping times and thus simplifies drawing histograms or calculating your own metrics based on ping's output.

Tested with Python 2.7 and 3.3. Not guaranteed to work however!

No other Python modules required.

The ping command must be available.

• Adding support for IPv6
• Adding support for more versions of ping (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Mac OS X)
• Histogram in Terminal output or just data?
• Add support for signals if continously pinging:
  • To terminate
  • To print current statistics?
• Show a histogram (via matplotlib) and update it continuously. This requires a change to the code structure and adding a new CLI option.

Drawing the histogram is currently not included in this tool. This tool just creates the output for other tools to display the data.

You can check this question on Stackoverflow for ideas of what tools to use.

This tool may be used together with histogram.py from data-hacks (install using pip install data_hacks):

./ping_histo.py 192.168.1.1 -c 50 | histogram.py

(Data_hacks does currently NOT work with Python 3.)