A very short and simple ASCII smoke ping in Python

SmokePing.py

import re
import time
import subprocess as sbpr
import datetime as dt

HOST = 'google.com'
DELAY_MS = 1000

while(True):
  t = float(re.findall(r'time=(.*) ms',sbpr.check_output(['ping', '-c', '1', HOST]).decode('ascii'))[0])
  print(f"{dt.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S.%f')[:-3]} | {t:4.3f} | {int(t)*'*'}")
  
  time.sleep(0.001 * DELAY_MS)