User:Eleanorg/Thematic1.1/Get no. of hops
Uses traceroute system command to return the number of hops for a specified webpage, in variable 'hopcount'.
<script lang=python>
- !/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)
</script>