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Standard Gems: SimpleHTTPServer.test()

Have you ever needed to share some files real quick with real low setup? You can start up a web server from the current directory on port 8000 with a single line of python.

python -c "from SimpleHTTPServer import test; test()"
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Tim Golden said…
Even simpler (in recent versions):

python -m SimpleHTTPServer
4:09 AM
Colin said…
Nice! I used to keep a copy of 'a-ftp.exe' around for simple file sharing, but it seems MSFT has tagged it as spyware and started deleting it :(

Very handy, thanks.
9:40 AM
Anonymous said…
With Billy Joex' new pyftpdlib something alike is possible for an FTP-server:
python -m pyftpdlib.FTPServer

see
http://billiejoex.altervista.org/pyftpdlib.html
8:38 AM
Bill Mill said…
Here's a quick hack to serve a non-8000 port, 19028 in this case:

python -c "from SimpleHTTPServer import test; import sys; sys.argv = [None, 19028]; test()"
11:14 PM
Anonymous said…
Hey Bill, more concise:
python -c "from SimpleHTTPServer import t; t()" 19028
11:35 AM
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