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Handling urllib2's return of badstatusline(line)?

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00:00 Handling Urllib2'S Return Of Badstatusline(Line)?
01:04 Answer 1 Score 3
01:11 Accepted Answer Score 6
01:18 Thank you

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725...

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#python #python27 #exceptionhandling #return #urllib2

#avk47

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