Validating URLs in Python

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out what the best way to validate a URL is (specifically in Python) but haven\'t really been able to find an answer. It seems like there isn\'t o

Answer 1

you can also try using urllib.request to validate by passing the URL in the urlopen function and catching the exception for URLError.

from urllib.request import urlopen, URLError

def validate_web_url(url="http://google"):
    try:
        urlopen(url)
        return True
    except URLError:
        return False

This would return False in this case