Python check if website exists

Question

I wanted to check if a certain website exists, this is what I\'m doing:

user_agent = \'Mozilla/20.0.1 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)\'
headers = { \'User         


        

Answer 1

def isok(mypath):
    try:
        thepage = urllib.request.urlopen(mypath)
    except HTTPError as e:
        return 0
    except URLError as e:
        return 0
    else:
        return 1