if you bought him a beer in the future he would owe you less than a beer today due to the time value of beer (which is, amazingly, much greater than the time value of money) If he buys you a beer today, you will need to go back to the future, and we must all hope this equation converges on an cross-time equilibrium when dealing only in integer beers. ("call me XAH!")
... in case the OP was looking for HTTP codes, there is a list here (among many other places) http://paradigmb.com/httpCodes.txt. now the OP may ask "How do I determine the HTTP response code when I am using the urllib2 module such as in the following code: ..." but we will wait for that question (I propose) so as not to force the OP into serious future-beer debt. EP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list