On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:59 -0800, godavemon wrote: > I'm using urllib2 to pull pages for a custom version of a web proxy > and am having issues with 404 errors. Urllib2 does a great job of > letting me know that a 404 happened with the following code. > > import urllib2 > url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/' > try: > page = urllib2.urlopen( url ) > except urllib2.URLError, e: > print e > > returns: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>From the urllib2 docs: HTTPError is also a valid HTTP response, so you can treat an HTTP error as an exceptional event or a valid response: import urllib2 url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/' try: page = urllib2.urlopen(url) except urllib2.URLError, e: print e.read() > > http://cnn.com/asdfasdfadsf > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
