Lib/test/test_httplib.py

from test.test_support import verify,verbose
import httplib
import StringIO

class FakeSocket:
    def __init__(self, text):
        self.text = text

    def makefile(self, mode, bufsize=None):
        if mode != 'r' and mode != 'rb':
            raise UnimplementedFileMode()
        return StringIO.StringIO(self.text)

# Test HTTP status lines

body = "HTTP/1.1 200 Ok\r\n\r\nText"
sock = FakeSocket(body)
resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(sock,1)
resp.begin()
print resp.read()
resp.close()

body = "HTTP/1.1 400.100 Not Ok\r\n\r\nText"
sock = FakeSocket(body)
resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(sock,1)
try:
    resp.begin()
except httplib.BadStatusLine:
    print "BadStatusLine raised as expected"
else:
    print "Expect BadStatusLine"