myping the thing to ping

myping.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import subprocess, commands

while True:
        foo = commands.getoutput('ping -c 1 marine.cat.pdx.edu | grep "ms" | cut -d "=" -f 4')
#       foo = sub.Popen("ping -c 1 marine.cat.pdx.edu")
#       print foo
        foo = foo.split(" ")[0]
        #print "#"*int(float(foo)*100)
        try:
                print float(foo)
        except ValueError:
                print foo