urllib request urlopen?

[nutgut]

Thanks Larz60+,
Well I guess to fetch a network-page its good. My url starts a download (csv file), so I cant fetch it as you do.
So maybe I'm doing it the right way.

Would be fun to hear what others think about the solution.

I wrote this a while back and it works for me:

GetUrl.py

import requests
import socket


class GetUrl:
    def __init__(self):
        self.ok_status = 200
        self.response = None

    def check_availability(self):
        self.internet_available = False
        if socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) != '127.0.0.1':
            self.internet_available = True
        return self.internet_available

    def fetch_url(self, url, bin=False):
        self.response = None
        if self.check_availability():
            try:
                if bin:
                    self.response = requests.get(url, stream=True, allow_redirects=False, timeout=3)
                    self.response.raise_for_status()
                else:
                    self.response = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=False, timeout=3)
                    self.response.raise_for_status()
            except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as errh:
                print("Http Error:", errh)
            except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as errc:
                print("Error Connecting:", errc)
            except requests.exceptions.Timeout as errt:
                print("Timeout Error:", errt)
            except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err:
                print("OOps: Something Else", err)
        else:
            print("Please check network connection and try again")
        return self.response

def testit():
    gu = GetUrl()
    url = 'https://www.google.com/'
    page = gu.fetch_url(url)
    if page is not None:
        if page.status_code ==  gu.ok_status:
            print(page.text)
        else:
            print("Problem downloading page")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    testit()

So to use in another program: