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

code:

a="http://www.example.com"
try:    
    print urllib.urlopen(a)
except:
    print a+"  site does not exist"