Get the description of a status code in Python Requests
http, python, python-requests
Solution
Alternatively, in case of Python 2.x, you can use `httplib.responses`:
>>> import httplib
>>> httplib.responses[200]
'OK'
>>> httplib.responses[404]
'Not Found'
In Python 3.x, use `http` module:
In [1]: from http.client import responses
In [2]: responses[200]
Out[2]: 'OK'
In [3]: responses[404]
Out[3]: 'Not Found'
Problem
I would like to be able to enter a server response code and have Requests tell me what the code means. For example, code 200 --> ok I found a link to the source code which shows the dictionary structure of the codes and descriptions. I see that Requests will return a response code for a given description: ``` print requests.codes.processing # returns 102 print requests.codes.ok # returns 200 print requests.codes.not_found # returns 404 ``` But not the other way around: ``` print requests.codes[200] # returns None print requests.codes.viewkeys() # returns dict_keys([]) print requests.codes.keys() # returns [] ``` I thought this would be a routine task, but cannot seem to find an answer to this in online searching, or in the documentation.