On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John wrote: > > i have the following code to open a URL address, but can you please > tell me how can I check the content type of the url response? > > Thank you. > > try: > req = Request(url, txdata, txheaders) > handle = urlopen(req) > except IOError, e: > print e > print 'Failed to open %s' % url > return 0; > > else: > data = handle.read()
Not absolutely sure about this, but try handle.headers.get('Content- Type') before the read. hth, Michael --- Asking a person who he *is* ... is not Pythonic! --Anton Vredegoor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list