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In this example we check if a network port is open
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We have a function and we will check a website and the localhost
import socket def is_network_port_open(hostname, port): try: sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect((hostname, port)) sock.close() return True except socket.error: return False is_open = is_network_port_open('google.com', 80) print(is_open) # True is_open = is_network_port_open('127.0.0.1', 443) print(is_open) # False