Question

Using a Nokia N900 , I have a urllib.urlopen statement that I want to be skipped if the server is offline. (If it fails to connect > proceed to next line of code ) .

How should / could this be done in Python?

Answer 1

According to the urllib documentation, it will raise IOError if the connection can’t be made.

try:
    urllib.urlopen(url)
except IOError:
    # exception handling goes here if you want it
    pass
else:
    DoSomethingUseful()

Edit: As unutbu pointed out, urllib2 is more flexible. The Python documentation has a good tutorial on how to use it.