Requests — how to tell if you're getting a success message?

Question

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I'm using the Requests library to hit an HTTP endpoint. I want to check if the response is a success.

I am currently doing this:

r = requests.get(url) if 200 <= response.status_code <= 299:     # Do something here! 

Instead of doing that ugly check for values between 200 and 299, is there a shorthand I can use?

Answer 1

The response has an ok property. Use that:

if response.ok:     ... 

The implementation is just a try/except around Response.raise_for_status, which is itself checks the status code.

@property def ok(self):     """Returns True if :attr:`status_code` is less than 400, False if not.      This attribute checks if the status code of the response is between     400 and 600 to see if there was a client error or a server error. If     the status code is between 200 and 400, this will return True. This     is **not** a check to see if the response code is ``200 OK``.     """     try:         self.raise_for_status()     except HTTPError:         return False     return True