Best way to Poll for connectivity

[Christopher Lees]

On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 12:00 +0000,
ubuntu-devel-discuss-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

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> Hey,
> 
> I was wondering what would be the best/most efficient method of
> polling for the internet to become available.
> 
> I mean like empathy or skype sit idle (poll to check connectivity) and
> imediately connect when computer goes online.
> 
> What would be the best way to implement this in Python. Does
> GLib/GObject or any POSIX API provide some sort of callback system for
> this.

As far as I remember, Network Manager should have a Dbus interface that
you can use to check if there's a network connection up. Try Google and
you might be able to find some documentation about it. Sorry it's been
years since I read about it.