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 threadStewart Russell

@simon this fails the standard library test, but pyserial's

python3 -m serial.tools.miniterm

gets you a tiny but good-enough serial debug terminal for those awkward hardware moments

Jun 29, 2023 at 8:35pmWeb