Hi, > I just want to test that a given website is up or not from a python > script. I thought of using wget as an os command. Any better ideas? Here is how I did it:
import urllib2 import socket def checkUrl(url, timeout=1): """Checks an url for a python version greater than 2.3.3. Note: For me isn't important the kind of HTTP Error. If you want to know it, then take a look at the existent solutions like CMFLinkChecker and see how they extract the code from the error message. """ error={'code':1, 'msg':'Success'} defTimeOut=socket.getdefaulttimeout() socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout) try: urllib2.urlopen(url) except (urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError, socket.error, socket.sslerror): error['code']=-2 error['msg']="The link: \"${link}\" couldn't be validated" except: socket.setdefaulttimeout(defTimeOut) raise socket.setdefaulttimeout(defTimeOut) return error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list