Python urllib2: Reading content body even during HTTPError exception?

Question

I\'m using urllib2 to fetch a a page via HTTP. Sometimes the resource throws a HTTP error 400 (Bad Request) when my request contains an error. However, that response also cont

Answer 1

import urllib2
try:
    request = urllib2.Request('http://www.somesite.com')
    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
    error_message = e.read()
    print error_message