HTTP status code to status message

Question

I'm looking for a way, in Python, to get the HTTP message from the status code. Is there a way that is better than building the dictionary yourself?

Something like:

>>> print http.codemap[404]
'Not found'

Answer 1

In Python 2.7, the httplib module has what you need:

>>> import httplib
>>> httplib.responses[400]
'Bad Request

Constants are also available:

httplib.responses[httplib.NOT_FOUND]
httplib.responses[httplib.OK]

Update

@shao.lo added a useful comment bellow. The http.client module can be used:

# For Python 3 use
import http.client
http.client.responses[http.client.NOT_FOUND]