Getting error text from `urllib2.urlopen`

Question

I used Python urllib2.urlopenand received 500 errors from the server. How to find the error text? I hope he has useful information.

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Ram rachum May 26, '11 at 15:15

1 answer

Fred foo · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-26T15:22:27+0000

from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError

try:
    f = urlopen(url)
except HTTPError, e:
    print(e.read())