CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

parsing output from ping - python

import re
import subprocess
import sys

from tabulate import tabulate


def main():
    address = sys.argv[1]
    pingthis = ['ping', '-c', '1', address]
    r = (
        subprocess
        .run(
            pingthis,
            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
            check=True,
        )
        .stdout
        .decode('utf-8')
    )
    table = tabulate(
        [[address, (re.search(r'time=(d+)', r).group(1))]],
        headers=["IP", "TimeToPing (ms)"],
        tablefmt="simple",
    )
    print(table)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()