Errors and Timeouts

Sometimes the problem is not your request but the server. A status in the 500s, like 500 Internal Server Error, means your request was fine but the server failed while answering it: a bug, a database that is down, too much traffic. It isn't your fault, and the same request may work a minute later.

Worse than a 500 is no answer at all. By default requests.get waits as long as the server takes. Pass timeout= a number of seconds to set a limit: when it runs out, requests raises requests.exceptions.Timeout. Catch it with try and except, so your script carries on instead of crashing:

try:
    response = requests.get("https://api.example.com/weather", timeout=5)
    print("Weather:", response.json()["sky"])
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
    print("No weather today")

The supplier has a route for each problem: /broken always fails, and /slow takes 2 seconds to answer.

GET /broken             →  500  {"error": "The supplier is down"}
GET /slow  (timeout=1)  →  no answer after 1 second: Timeout

Your script must print:

/broken: 500
The supplier failed: The supplier is down
/slow: no answer after 1 second

Your task: get /broken and print its status, and for any status of 500 or more, the error from its JSON body. Then get /slow with timeout=1 inside a try block: print its status if it answers in time, and a message if it times out.

Assignment
Follow the Coding Tutorial to handle a server error and a timeout without crashing.

Hint
response.status_code >= 500 catches every server error at once. Inside the try block, the lines after the request run only when an answer came in time.