Question

I’m trying to write a script which will read a file containing some urls and then open a browser instance using mechanize module. I’m just wondering how I can do so if some url does not exist or if the server is unreachable.

For Example

import mechanize  

br = mechanize.Browser()  
b  = br.open('http://192.168.1.30/index.php')

What I want to know is how I will get information from mechanize if 192.168.1.30 is unreachable or if http returns 404 Error.

Answer 1

from mechanize import Browser
browser = Browser()
response = browser.open('http://www.google.com')
print response.code

Or Use Python requests library.

Sample code demonstrating it:

>>>import requests
>>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
>>> r.status_code
200