Check the Status First in Python

Every answer from a server starts with a status code: a number that says how the request went. 200 OK means the body holds what you asked for. 404 Not Found means there is nothing at that address. A 404 is not a crash: the request went out, and the server answered.

The status tells you what the body holds, so check it before you use the body. Here is the idea on another page of the supplier:

response = requests.get(SUPPLIER + "/catalog?page=1")
if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Got the page")

Your script looks up three product ids: 3, 99 and 5. The supplier has no product 99, so it answers 404, and its body holds an error instead of a product. Reading ["name"] from that body would stop the script with a KeyError.

GET /prices/3   →  200  {"name": "Lamp", "price": 14, …}
GET /prices/99  →  404  {"error": "No product with that id"}
GET /prices/5   →  200  {"name": "Plant", "price": 6, …}

Your script must print:

Product 3 - status 200
Lamp costs 14
Product 99 - status 404
No such product at the supplier
Product 5 - status 200
Plant costs 6

Your task: loop over product_ids, get /prices/ followed by each id, and print the id and its status code. For a 200, print the product's name, "costs" and its price. For a 404, print "No such product at the supplier".

Assignment
Follow the Coding Tutorial to request each product, print its status code and handle the 200 and 404 answers.

Hint
The id is a number, so turn it into text with str(product_id) before you join it to the address. Print the status before the if, and line the elif up with the if.