Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John wrote: > > > > > i have the following code to open a URL address, but can you please > > tell me how can I check the content type of the url response? > > > > Thank you. > > > > try: > > req = Request(url, txdata, txheaders) > > handle = urlopen(req) > > except IOError, e: > > print e > > print 'Failed to open %s' % url > > return 0; > > > > else: > > data = handle.read() > > Not absolutely sure about this, but try handle.headers.get('Content- > Type') before the read.
handle.get_header("Content-type") John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list