Measure Network Data with Python

Question

I\'m currently writing a program to shut down a computer when over a period of time (say, half an hour) network traffic is below a certain threshold.

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Answer 1

To check the network traffic on your system, i recommend you look into psutil:

>>> psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)
{'lo': iostat(bytes_sent=799953745, bytes_recv=799953745, packets_sent=453698, packets_recv=453698), 
 'eth0': iostat(bytes_sent=734324837, bytes_recv=4163935363, packets_sent=3605828, packets_recv=4096685)}
>>>

And to shutdown your OS, if you are on windows check this: OS Reboot, Shutdown, Hibernate, Sleep, Wakeup (Windows Python)

and if you are using linux/unix, use the subprocess module to send the shutdown/reboot command.