HW1: Q3.1 - Under what circumstances would urlcache[url] return 2?

#1 
urlcache={}

def get_page(url):

    if (url not in urlcache) or (urlcache[url]==1) or (urlcache[url]==2):

        time.sleep(1)

        try:

            r = requests.get("http://en.wikipedia.org%s" % url)

            if r.status_code == 200:

                urlcache[url] = r.text

            else:

                urlcache[url] = 1

        except:

            urlcache[url] = 2

    return urlcache[url]

If I am understanding this bit of code right, the value gets updated if the webpage exists (which does seem to be the case for all URLs), and it is 1 if the status code is not 200 (any error in the page).

But I don’t get under what circumstances the value would be 2.

#2

what if you have ‘xyz’ in place of your URL. In that case your requests.get() will throw an error and your except block will be triggered. Obviously this is a hypothetical situation, but you should get the idea…

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