Simon WillisonJun 29, 2023
TIL there are dozens of neat little command-line tools hidden away in the Python standard library, available to run on any machine that has a Python installation https://til.simonwillison.net/python/stdlib-cli-tools
CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

Seth Michael Larson pointed out that the Python gzip module can be used as a CLI tool like this:

Show threadSimon WillisonJun 29, 2023
"python -m tokenize file.py" and "python -m ast file.py" are particularly fun
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@simon http.server is my go-to when I'm toying with an idea that doesn't deserve a full workspace yet. Love that module.

I didn't know about calendar. Since it can spit out nicely formatted HTML, this is probably going to be my new method of printing full-year calendars for school. Thanks for that tip 👍

Jun 29, 2023 at 1:16amWeb