Python requests: response object does not contain a status header

Question

These are requests 1.1.0 and Python 2.6.4 (also the same behavior on Python 2.7.2).

>>> import requests >>> response = requests.get('http://www.google.com') >>> response.status_code 200 >>> print response.headers.get('status') None 

According to the documents there should be a header record ['status'] with a string like "200 OK".

Here is the full contents of the dict headers:

 >>> response.headers {'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'set-cookie': 'PREF=ID=74b29ee465454efd:FF=0:TM=1362094463:LM=1362094463:S=Xa96iJQX_9BrC-Vm; expires=Sat, 28-Feb-2015 23:34:23 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com, NID=67=IH21bLPTK2gLTHCyDCMEs3oN5g1uMV99U4Wsc2YA00AbFt4fQCoywQNEQU0pR6VuaNhhQGFCsqdr0FnWbPcym-pizo0xVuS6WBJ9EOTeSFARpzrsiHh6HNnaQeCnxCSH; expires=Fri, 30-Aug-2013 23:34:23 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly', 'expires': '-1', 'server': 'gws', 'cache-control': 'private, max-age=0', 'date': 'Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:34:23 GMT', 'p3p': 'CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1', 'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN'} 

Here I realized that this dict should contain the "status" entry.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You are looking for a "reason"

 >>> x=requests.get("http://apple.adam.gs") >>> x.reason 'OK' >>> 

custom.php contains:

 header("HTTP/1.1 200 Testing") 

Results in:

 >>> x=requests.get("http://apple.adam.gs/custom.php") >>> print x.reason Testing >>>