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# importing libraries
import subprocess
import os

# a function to ping given host
def ping(host):

	# command is pong
	cmd = 'ping'

	# send two packets of data to the host
	# this is specified by '-c 2' in the
	# args list
	temp = subprocess.Popen([cmd, '-c 2', host], stdout = subprocess.PIPE)

	# get the output of ping
	output = str(temp.communicate())

	output = output.split("\n")

	output = output[0].split('\\')

	# variable to store the result
	res = []

	for line in output:
		res.append(line)

	# print the results
	print('ping results: ')
	print('\n'.join(res[len(res) - 3:len(res) - 1]))

	return res


if __name__ == '__main__':

	# ping google
	ping('www.google.com')