internet_checker

Probably the most utilitarian piece of code I’ve ever written, this program, coded in July 2010 when I was having faulty internet problems. It repeatedly attempts to contact google.com and plays a sound when it is successful (unfortunately the sound playing only works under Windows).

import urllib.request, winsound

url_to_check = "http://google.com"

run_program = True
while run_program:
    try:
        f = urllib.request.urlopen(url_to_check)
    except:
        continue
    run_program = False

winsound.PlaySound("alert.wav",winsound.SND_FILENAME)