Check if Google's URL is avaliable

isAlive.py

'''
Created on 17/12/2010

@author: Edu Rodriguez Castillo <http://www.sourcerebels.com>
'''
import urllib2


def isAlive(url):
    try:
        urllib2.urlopen(url)
        return True
    except urllib2.URLError:
        return False


if __name__ == '__main__':

    if isAlive('http://www.google.com'):
        print 'Google still alive'
    else:
        print 'Google is not alive'