How do I check if a file on http exists, using Python/django?

Question

How do I check if a file on http exists, using Python/Django?

I try to check if file in http://hostname/directory/file.jpg exist

Answer 1

Try urllib2.urlopen:

import urllib2
ret = urllib2.urlopen('http://hostname/directory/file.jpg')
if ret.code == 200:
    print "Exists!"

Note that you don't check if file exists - you check if resource exists

EDIT: The other answer by user Geo is better in that HEAD request can be much more efficient as it doesn't fetch resource content.