import urllib.request try: r = urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:8017/', timeout=5) print('localhost OK:', r.status) except Exception as e: print('localhost FAIL:', e) try: r = urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8017/', timeout=5) print('127.0.0.1 OK:', r.status) except Exception as e: print('127.0.0.1 FAIL:', e)