Handling urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError

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# Handling urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError
# (via http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml)
from urllib2 import Request, urlopen, URLError, HTTPError
req = Request(someurl)
try:
    response = urlopen(req)
except HTTPError, e:
    print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.'
    print 'Error code: ', e.code
except URLError, e:
    print 'We failed to reach a server.'
    print 'Reason: ', e.reason
else:
    # ...