Python Printing A List Issue

Question

I'm really struggling to work out how to print to a list. I'd like to print the server response codes of URLs I specify. Do you know how I'd alter to code to print the output into a list? If not, do you know where I'd find the answer? I've been searching around for a couple of weeks now.

Here's the code:

import urllib2
for url in ["http://stackoverflow.com/", "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/"]:
    try:
        connection = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        print connection.getcode()
        connection.close()
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        print e.getcode()

prints:

200

200

I'd like to have:

[200, 200]

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 21 '13 at 05:19

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Do you actually want a list? Or just to print it like a list? In either case the following should work:

import urllib2
out = []
for url in ["http://stackoverflow.com/", "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/"]:
    try:
        connection = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        out.append(connection.getcode())
        connection.close()
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        out.append(e.getcode())
print out

It just makes a list containing the codes, then prints the list.

edited Jul 21 '13 at 05:19

sberry

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answered Jul 21 '13 at 05:15

Matthew Wesly

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Almost, you probably want to capture the code on Error as well. – sberry Jul 21 '13 at 05:16
I went ahead and fixed that part for you. – sberry Jul 21 '13 at 05:19
That's brilliant. Thanks to @sberry and Matthew Wesly for your quick responses! – Sam Perry Jul 21 '13 at 05:29

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