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I am trying to ping an address using a Raspberry PI 3B, tried ping 192.168.0.1 from the command line, that appeared to respond. Now I need to get to work faster so I tried the below Python (I am far from expert) from SO it did not appear to work (surprise!) I have tried to get it to work, adding a 'w' to open error count file if it does not exist, creating ErrorCount.log on the desktop causes the script to limp rather than run... So am not creating the text file properly or am I pining (or ponging) wrong?

What I have tried:

import socket

max_error_count = 10
error_count = 1


def increase_error_count():
    # Quick hack to handle false Port not open errors
    with open('ErrorCount.log') as f:
        for line in f:
            error_count = line
    error_count = int(error_count)
    print ("Error counter: " + str(error_count))
    file = open('ErrorCount.log', 'w')
    file.write(str(error_count + 1))
    file.close()
    if error_count == max_error_count:
        # Send email, pushover, slack or do any other fancy stuff
        print ("Sending out notification")
        # Reset error counter so it won't flood you with notifications
        file = open('ErrorCount.log', 'w')
        file.write('0')
        file.close()

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.settimeout(2) 
result = sock.connect_ex(('192.168.0.1',80))
if result == 0:
        print ("Port is open")
else:
        print ("Port is not open")
        increase_error_count()