Python network bandwidth monitor

python

Solution

For my task I wrote very simple solution using psutil:

import time
import psutil

def main():
    old_value = 0    

    while True:
        new_value = psutil.net_io_counters().bytes_sent + psutil.net_io_counters().bytes_recv

        if old_value:
            send_stat(new_value - old_value)

        old_value = new_value

        time.sleep(1)

def convert_to_gbit(value):
    return value/1024./1024./1024.*8

def send_stat(value):
    print ("%0.3f" % convert_to_gbit(value))

main()

Problem

I am developing a program in python, and one element tells the user how much bandwidth they have used since the program has opened (not just within the program, but regular web browsing while the program has been opened). The output should be displayed in GTK Is there anything in existence, if not can you point me in the right direction. It seems like i would have to edit an existing proxy script like pythonproxy, but i can't see how i would use it. Thanks,

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