Today’s post are three simple Python commands which should be known more widely, but are not.
Start a simple web server to serve files from current directory.
~$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
This is neither secure, nor scalable, but handy if you are in a directory and want to quickly test something.
Testing emails
~$ python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer
Starts a fake SMTP server on port 1025. Useful if you are testing emails on a system which doesn’t allow pluggable emails backends.
Pretty print JSON
echo '{"2legs":"Better", "4Legs": "Good", "6Legs": "Spider"}' | python -m json.tool
- Inspired by a tweet from Adrian Holovaty
- The -m switch was added in PEP-338
- Try these too
python -m unittest discover .,python -m timeit -s 'import random; 10*random.randint(10, 20)'
Thank you for reading the Agiliq blog. This article was written by shabda on May 1, 2014 in Python .
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