How citizens of Earth (and Mars in future) will understand the reason of rest api failure?

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Although I really like the good custom exceptions created in exceptions.py and the romantic one liner

_status_to_exception_type = dict((c.code, c) for c in HttpError.__subclasses__())

Yet it is not useful as per the following lines

atlasclient/atlasclient/base.py

Lines 622 to 624 in 02b3e7d

	self.load(self.client.request(self.method, self.url, **params))
	except Exception:
	self.load(self._data)

Sometimes atlas server goes down (503 mainly), which makes it impossible to identify whether the entity not found (404) or server is down.

Consider the following example :

entity = client.entity_unique_attribute('hive_table', qualifiedName=atlas_qn)
if entity.entity is None:
    print("I dont know what happened, could be missing or server down")