How do I get the content-type from return of urlopen(url) in python2.x?

Question

Are theere any functions in 3.x using the http.client.HTTPMessage().get_content_type() ?

Answer 1

urllib2.urlopen() returns an addinfourl with headers:

>>> import urllib2
>>> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> f.headers['content-type']
'text/html'
>>>