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:

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@simon json.tool will also exit with nonzero status if your json document is invalid.

We use it a lot as a quick easy to validate config files

Jun 29, 2023 at 11:18pmWeb