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Revision as of 00:00, 3 December 2011
Uses traceroute system command to return the number of hops for a specified webpage, in variable 'hopcount'.
#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
import os # lets you use system commands inside the python script
site = "newint.org"
command = "traceroute " + site + " | wc -l" # concatenates your site variable inside command to be sent to system
traceroute = os.popen(command,'r') # popen() function opens system command with argument 'r' for 'read'
hopcount = int(traceroute.read()) - 1 # turns no. of lines returned by traceroute into an int, subtracting 1 (the summary line)
print(hopcount)