Handling urllib2's return of badstatusline(line)?

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 6

import httplib

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def internet_on():
    try:
        urllib2.urlopen("http://google.co.uk/", timeout = 10)
        return True
    except (IOError, httplib.HTTPException):
        return False

ANSWER 2

Score 3

except httplib.BadStatusLine as e:
    return False