Testing for connection to a website

[Alexnb]

Alexnb wrote:
> 
> Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
> figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific
> website. Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do
> urlopen() and and am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if
> that was what you guys wanted me to do, but I don't think so, you guys are
> smarter than that. So, how can I test for connection to a website. 
> 

Just for anyone looking this up later here is code that works :)

from urllib2 import *
import urllib2
e = ''

req = urllib2.Request('http://www.dictionary.com')
try: 
    response = urlopen(req)
    
except HTTPError, e:
    print e.code
except URLError, e:
    print e.reason
    
if e == '':
    print "good to go"
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