🔒 How do i make a ping function?

[warm valve]

Like, print the response time in milliseconds

[fair mason]

@warm valve

Python help channel opened

Remember to:

• Ask your Python question, not if you can ask or if there's an expert who can help.
• Show a code sample as text (rather than a screenshot) and the error message, if you've got one.
• Explain what you expect to happen and what actually happens.

:warning: Do not pip install anything that isn't related to your question, especially if asked to over DMs.

Closes after a period of inactivity, or when you send !close.

[warm valve]

like this;
?ping
Pong! Response: {ms}

[lime cosmos]

is this for a discord bot?

[warm valve]

nope

this is for LCP (a project that i'm working on)

like a command panel like a terminal

hello guys???

@lime cosmos

[lime cosmos]

Im gonna need some more context

[warm valve]

still???

like what? ask me

[lime cosmos]

wait so is this like matrix calculations

[warm valve]

what is a matrix calculation?

aw man i want to know how to make this function so badly

[lime cosmos]

wait do u mean LCP array?

[warm valve]

no

LCP lanzoor command panel

;-;

[lime cosmos]

what would you be pinging to get the latency then?

[warm valve]

i dont know

[wheat urchin]

whats an LCP

[lime cosmos]

since this is a local program if you ping nothing there will be no latency

[lime cosmos]

https://github.com/Lanzoor/Lanzoor-Command-Panel

this probably

they are making their own command panel thingy

[warm valve]

yes

[warm valve]

;-;

[wheat urchin]

so you want latency but.... it's a command panel?

[warm valve]

well yes

[lime cosmos]

yeah what are you trying to get the latency for

[warm valve]

;-;

[wheat urchin]

latency of what

[warm valve]

whats a latency

i just want the response time

[lime cosmos]

I'm so confused

response time is zero since there is no networking involved

[unborn cliff]

so you essentially want to replicate ping command from system that returns the latency between a server and a client

[wheat urchin]

latency basicallt means response time

see ping gets the time it takes like a server to respond to something

[lime cosmos]

idk maybe just import os

and then when they use the ping command

os.system("ping google.com")```

[warm valve]

oh then i want the response time after the ?ping command is inputted

[lime cosmos]

for some cool stuff

[wheat urchin]

thats not what a ping command is supposed to do. its supposed to get the response time of a server

[warm valve]

well then

[unborn cliff]

ur definition of "ping" is very vague. define what "ping" is

[lime cosmos]

are you trying to time print()?

[warm valve]

github 😂 i gues

[warm valve]

ye i guess

[wheat urchin]

💀 🙏

[warm valve]

is it just 0?

[wheat urchin]

practically 0 yes

[lean nacelle]

uh

[unborn cliff]

most local operations do not have a latency that you'd need to worry much about (like print)

[lean nacelle]

what are you trying to ping

[warm valve]

print()

[lean nacelle]

wtf

[wheat urchin]

theres no point 😭

[warm valve]

even though it is 0 it can still be something else

[lean nacelle]

why

[lime cosmos]

!epy import time now = time.time() print("this is a test") after = time.time() time_taken = after - now print(time_taken)

ok

[warm valve]

if you have a potato computer

[lime cosmos]

im dumb

[wheat urchin]

its utterly useless

[dusk grove]

time.time

[wheat urchin]

no, that's not how it works

[warm valve]

...ok

then pinging github it is

[lime cosmos]

!e py import time now = time.time() print("this is a test") after = time.time() time_taken = after - now print(time_taken)

[fair mason]

@lime cosmos :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | this is a test
002 | 1.9073486328125e-05

[unborn cliff]

if you want to benchmark print function

latency = timeit.timeit("print('Hello')", number=1000)  # note: it will print to ur console 1000 times

[lime cosmos]

ty im doing too much stuff with datetime

[lime cosmos]

that is how long it takes to print something

I guess

[warm valve]

ohhh alrighty then

[unborn cliff]

eh, you need multiple iterations to reduce error in measurement

[wheat urchin]

!d timeit

[fair mason]

timeit

Source code: Lib/timeit.py

This module provides a simple way to time small bits of Python code. It has both a Command-Line Interface as well as a callable one. It avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution times. See also Tim Peters’ introduction to the “Algorithms” chapter in the second edition of Python Cookbook, published by O’Reilly.

Similar names: ipython.timeit

[wheat urchin]

built in

[warm valve]

oh actually thats it

lol thx

wait is this millisecond or second?

[wheat urchin]

that's seconds

[lime cosmos]

seconds

[wheat urchin]

effectively 0

[warm valve]

ok

[unborn cliff]

0.2 ms lol

[wheat urchin]

this is so pointless 😭

[lime cosmos]

yeah milliseconds is multiply by 1000

[lean nacelle]

Why doing this

[wheat urchin]

forreal

[static root]

print is more likely going to be IO-bound too

[unborn cliff]

(I imagine you've had a fantasy to create something cool looking with menues and you wanted some cool commands and have heard of ping, i am way past that point already btw)

[warm valve]

haha

[warm valve]

actually it isnt 🤓

[unborn cliff]

it is kinda useless for print and input unless you are working on cpython internals or something

[dusk grove]

if you’re asking how to make a proper ping executable like exists on your system, you might like this (very long) blog series https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping

[unborn cliff]

ngl i'd connect using sockets and call it a day

[warm valve]

ok imma close this

!close

[fair mason]

Python help channel closed

This help channel has been closed and it's no longer possible to send messages here. If your question wasn't answered, feel free to create a new post in #1035199133436354600. To maximize your chances of getting a response, check out this guide on asking good questions.