Storing value from a parsed ping

Question

I\'m working on some code that performs a ping operation from python and extracts only the latency by using awk. This is currently what I have:

from os import sy         


        

Answer 1

os.system() returns the return code of the called command, not the output to stdout.

For detail on how to properly get the command's output (including pre-Python 2.7), see this: Running shell command from Python and capturing the output