python_ping_trace

ping trace.py

# create websites.txt, place in same directory as script.  Fill with list of splitlines
# create empty file results.txt
# run python ping.py

import urllib2
import subprocess

def readFile():
	array = []
	with open('./websites.txt') as file:
	    array = file.read().splitlines()
	return array

def ping(website):
	print "pinging: "+website
	ping = subprocess.Popen(["ping", "-c", "1", website], stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
	pingout, error = ping.communicate()
	print pingout 
	return pingout

def trace(website):
	print "tracing: "+website
	trace = subprocess.Popen(['traceroute', website], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
	traceout = trace.communicate()
	print traceout
	return traceout;

def write_to_file(filepath, data):
	file = open(r"./results.txt", "a+")
	file.write(data + "\n")
	file.close()

def execute():
	websites = readFile()
	for website in websites:
		write_to_file('./results.txt', ping(website))
		# write_to_file('./results.txt', trace(website))
		trace(website)

execute()