python requests: how to check for “200 OK”

Question

What is the easiest way to check whether the response received from a requests post was \"200 OK\" or an error has occurred?

I tried doing something like this:

Answer 1

Since any 2XX class response is considered successful in HTTP, I would use:

if 200 <= resp.status_code <= 299:
    print ('OK!') 
else:
    print ('Boo!')