List http response code - Compatible with Python2 and 3

Question

So I want to get a list of response codes (Not to harcode it) from a library.

In python2 I could easily do something like this:

import httplib
....
if res.status_code != httplib.OK:
     do_something

httplib is not present in python3 (I think I hhtp.client is in python3?)

Is there a library compatible with both Python2 and 3 to read the avaialble status codes?

Answer 1

try:
   import httplib as client
except:
   from http import client

#do some stuff here 

Answer 2

Personally, I like to use requests .

import requests

some_request = requests.get('some link')
some_request.raise_for_status()
# Rest of the code

As per the documentation , an error will only be raised if a request is unsuccessful.