7.2. Library Usage

7.2.1. Execute ping and parse the result

PingTransmitter class can execute ping command and obtain the ping output as a string.

Sample Code
import json
import pingparsing

ping_parser = pingparsing.PingParsing()
transmitter = pingparsing.PingTransmitter()
transmitter.destination = "google.com"
transmitter.count = 10
result = transmitter.ping()

print(json.dumps(ping_parser.parse(result).as_dict(), indent=4))
Output
{
    "destination": "google.com",
    "packet_transmit": 10,
    "packet_receive": 10,
    "packet_loss_rate": 0.0,
    "packet_loss_count": 0,
    "rtt_min": 34.458,
    "rtt_avg": 51.062,
    "rtt_max": 62.943,
    "rtt_mdev": 8.678,
    "packet_duplicate_rate": 0.0,
    "packet_duplicate_count": 0
}

7.2.2. Parsing ping command output

Sample Code
import json
from textwrap import dedent
import pingparsing

parser = pingparsing.PingParsing()
stats = parser.parse(dedent("""\
    PING google.com (74.125.24.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
    [1524930937.003555] 64 bytes from 74.125.24.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=39 time=148 ms
    [1524930937.787175] 64 bytes from 74.125.24.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=39 time=137 ms
    [1524930938.787642] 64 bytes from 74.125.24.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=39 time=137 ms
    [1524930939.787653] 64 bytes from 74.125.24.100: icmp_seq=4 ttl=39 time=136 ms
    [1524930940.788365] 64 bytes from 74.125.24.100: icmp_seq=5 ttl=39 time=136 ms

    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 136.537/139.174/148.006/4.425 ms
    """))

print("[extract ping statistics]")
print(json.dumps(stats.as_dict(), indent=4))

print("\n[extract icmp replies]")
for icmp_reply in stats.icmp_replies:
    print(icmp_reply)
Output
[ping statistics]
{
    "destination": "google.com",
    "packet_transmit": 5,
    "packet_receive": 5,
    "packet_loss_count": 0,
    "packet_loss_rate": 0.0,
    "rtt_min": 136.537,
    "rtt_avg": 139.174,
    "rtt_max": 148.006,
    "rtt_mdev": 4.425,
    "packet_duplicate_count": 0,
    "packet_duplicate_rate": 0.0
}

[icmp replies]
{'destination': '74.125.24.100', 'bytes': 64, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 29, 0, 55, 37, 3555), 'icmp_seq': 1, 'ttl': 39, 'time': 148.0, 'duplicate': False}
{'destination': '74.125.24.100', 'bytes': 64, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 29, 0, 55, 37, 787175), 'icmp_seq': 2, 'ttl': 39, 'time': 137.0, 'duplicate': False}
{'destination': '74.125.24.100', 'bytes': 64, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 29, 0, 55, 38, 787642), 'icmp_seq': 3, 'ttl': 39, 'time': 137.0, 'duplicate': False}
{'destination': '74.125.24.100', 'bytes': 64, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 29, 0, 55, 39, 787653), 'icmp_seq': 4, 'ttl': 39, 'time': 136.0, 'duplicate': False}
{'destination': '74.125.24.100', 'bytes': 64, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 29, 0, 55, 40, 788365), 'icmp_seq': 5, 'ttl': 39, 'time': 136.0, 'duplicate': False}