urllib2 http status

[rosendo]

I'm writing a http client to test some applications.
The code below it's the core of the client:
        try:
                start_ts = time.time()
                request = urllib2.Request('http://%s%s'
%(req.host,req.path), req.data, req.headers)
                request.add_header("Referer", 'http://%s%s'
%(req.host,req.path))
                c.add_cookie_header(request)                
                c.clear()
                #request = urllib2.Request('http://www.google.com')
                try:                    
                    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
                    data = response.read()
                    headers = response.info().headers
                    #status = response.info().status
                    d = c.extract_cookies(response, request)    
                except urllib2.URLError, msg:
                    print "URLError: ", msg;
                except urllib2.HTTPError, msg:
                    print "HTTPError: ", msg;
                except: 
                    print sys.exc_type,sys.exc_value
                duration = time.time() - start_ts
                
                print 'The result had status: %s duration: %5.2f
http://%s%s' %(response.info().status, duration, req.host,req.path)
        except:
                print sys.exc_type,sys.exc_value
                print 'cagadita....' + str(req)


Before this code we declare c = ClientCookie.Cookies(), etc......
Then i don't know how to know the status of the response, because the
property:
response.info().status seems not to function like i wait, that it's
with an 200, 301, 400, etc.....
How can obtein this status?
I prefer not use httplib, but with urllib2 i'm not sure if i could
obtain the HTTP status.

Thanks in advance.
Rosendo.