a simple script to ping another jid

xmpp-ping.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmpp
import sys
import random
import optparse
import subprocess
import socket
import re

id = str(random.randint(100, 1000))

def receiver(conn, iq):
    if iq.getAttr('id')==id:
        print "SUCCESS"
        sys.exit(0)
    else:
        print "FAILURE"
        sys.exit(1)

def runtest(options):
    jid = xmpp.protocol.JID(options.jid)
    # guest agent
    client = xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain())
    client.connect()
    client.auth(jid.getNode(), options.password)
    client.RegisterHandler('iq', receiver)
    iq = xmpp.simplexml.Node('iq', {"type": "get", "to": options.entity, "id": id})
    iq.addChild('ping', namespace="urn:xmpp:ping")
    client.send(iq)
    while 1:
        client.Process(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-j", "--jid",
        dest="jid",
        help="the jid that you want to do the ping from")
    parser.add_option("-p", "--password",
        dest="password",
        help="password of jid")
    parser.add_option("-e", "--entity",
        dest="entity",
        help="jid of entity that you want to ping")
    options, args = parser.parse_args()

    runtest(options)