Re: Testing for connection to a website

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alexnb wrote:

e = ''

try:
...
except HTTPError, e:
print e.code
except URLError, e:
print e.reason
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if e == '':
print "good to go"

footnote: here's a better way to test if an exception was raised or not:

try:
...
except HTTPError, e:
print e.code
except URLError, e:
print e.reason
else:
print "good to go"

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