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

Use subprocess.check_output if you want to store the output in a variable:

from subprocess import check_output
l = check_output("ping -c 1 sitename | awk -F = 'FNR==2 {print substr($4,1,length($4)-3)}'", shell=True) 
print l

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