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 threadJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven

@simon With regard to ripgrep, I think you could've done:

rg -l -g '!test*' -g '!idlelib' -g '!turtledemo' 'if __name__ ='

Jun 29, 2023 at 5:13amTusky