Request Module Exception Handling Template

Exception-Handling-of-Python-Requests-Module-template-rubberduck.md

NR	CODE	COMMENT
#1	response = requests.get(url,...)	within a try block, create variable with a response object
#2	response.raise_for_status()	raises exception 4xx & 5xx HTTP Statuses/errors
#3	except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:	exception base class for all other exceptions
#4	print(e, file=sys.stderr)	print exception object into stderr stream

Exception-Handling-of-Python-Requests-Module-template.py

import requests
import sys
url = "http://example.com"
try:
    response = requests.get(url,...)                #1
    response.raise_for_status()                     #2
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:   #3
    print(e, file=sys.stderr)                       #4