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  1. sandgate-dev created this gist Mar 9, 2019.
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    # How can I determine if anything at the given url exists
    # https://stackoverflow.com/a/1966141/5983691
    #
    # 4xx status codes describe client errors (like "404 Not found")
    # 5xx status codes describe server errors (like "500 Internal server error")

    from urllib2 import urlopen

    code = urlopen("http://example.com/").code
    if (code / 100 >= 4):
    print "Nothing there."