Get the description of a status code in Python Requests

Question

I would like to be able to enter a server response code and have Requests tell me what the code means. For example, code 200 --> ok

I found a link to the source code which shows the dictionary structure of the codes and descriptions. I see that Requests will return a response code for a given description:

print requests.codes.processing  # returns 102 print requests.codes.ok          # returns 200 print requests.codes.not_found   # returns 404 

But not the other way around:

print requests.codes[200]        # returns None print requests.codes.viewkeys()  # returns dict_keys([]) print requests.codes.keys()      # returns [] 

I thought this would be a routine task, but cannot seem to find an answer to this in online searching, or in the documentation.

Answer 1

Alternatively, in case of Python 2.x, you can use httplib.responses:

>>> import httplib >>> httplib.responses[200] 'OK' >>> httplib.responses[404] 'Not Found' 

In Python 3.x, use http module:

In [1]: from http.client import responses  In [2]: responses[200] Out[2]: 'OK'  In [3]: responses[404] Out[3]: 'Not Found' 

Answer 2

One possibility:

>>> import requests >>> requests.status_codes._codes[200] ('ok', 'okay', 'all_ok', 'all_okay', 'all_good', '\\o/', '\xe2\x9c\x93') 

The first value in the tuple is used as the conventional code key.