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Python ping list of IPv6 hosts and make a dictionary of reachable and unreachable hosts with time

the following script is working perfectly fine for IPv4 but however my job is to do same for IPv6..

#!/usr/bin/python
import pyping
response = pyping.ping('8.8.8.8')
if response.ret_code == 0:
    print("reachable")
else:
    print("unreachable")
is there any way.. i tried to install aioping or aio_ping.. but didnt work,.. is there any workaround to run the same as above for IPv6 in linux machines
                This version of pyping has IPv6 support. If you would rather use aio_ping, please show your code and describe in detail what the problem is. "Didn't work" is not a useful description.
– IonicSolutions
                Jun 29, 2018 at 9:33
                while using pyping with ipv6 address.. below error coming:   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyping/core.py", line 170, in print_unknown_host     raise Exception, "unknown_host" Exception: unknown_host
– Python Spark
                Jun 29, 2018 at 9:41
                The python-ping package on PyPI has no support for IPv6 it seems. If you want to use python-ping, you need to use one of the more recent versions I linked to above.
– IonicSolutions
                Jun 29, 2018 at 9:45
Using the example from the multi-ping (pip install multiping) documentation:
from multiping import MultiPing
# Create a MultiPing object
mp = MultiPing(["2a00:1450:4005:803::200e"])
# Send the pings to those addresses
mp.send()
# With a 1 second timout, wait for responses (may return sooner if all
# results are received).
responses, no_responses = mp.receive(1)
if responses:
    print("reachable: %s" % responses)
if no_responses:
    print("unreachable: %s" % no_responses)
Have a look at the documentation to see how responses/no_responses are structured and how to ping multiple addresses simultaneously.
        
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