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 (DIR) Post #AXAOqnR2quWej5HMAK by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
       2023-06-29T00:25:43Z
       
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       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
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAP2Q6PQfQNpsAYbI by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
       2023-06-29T00:27:02Z
       
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       "python -m tokenize file.py" and "python -m ast file.py" are particularly fun
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAQHyMcQbDiOSjONs by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
       2023-06-29T00:41:56Z
       
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       @simon Ha. At least two of those could replace things I quickly scripted and threw in ~/bin
       
 (DIR) Post #AXATOP7a9nNqyqSLsu by brianb@fosstodon.org
       2023-06-29T01:16:50Z
       
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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 👍
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAVJPQ7ok5wMtsL6u by kfdm@social.tsun.co
       2023-06-29T01:38:10Z
       
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       @simon I use `python -m json.tool` a LOT 😃
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAa0dA901s3G3GX0C by Octarine@wig.gl
       2023-06-29T02:30:49Z
       
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       @simon zipapp too! Module execution, entry points discoverability from importlib.metadata and zipapp seem to me to be like an underutilised ecosystem of python as a portable platform.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAiUfdv8qMDGs1pNA by marcin_sawicki@social.abstractionleak.com
       2023-06-29T04:05:43Z
       
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       @simon Kinda knew about HTTP and few more, but calendar made me wow
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAkviIRaEhHED0PaK by slothrop@chaos.social
       2023-06-29T04:33:17Z
       
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       @simon Me reading this:Ah, nerd bait, nobody needs th… Wait, instant local http server???!😂
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAlkPaWtrgBySdjdI by jnovinger@mastodon.social
       2023-06-29T04:42:25Z
       
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       @simon I saw tabnanny and, as a browser tab addict, I had to know more.Turns out it's a tabs vs spaces indent specific linter. Still cool though!https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/tabnanny.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAoYoOL9hpBHv6BM0 by asmodai@mastodon.social
       2023-06-29T05:13:58Z
       
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       @simon With regard to ripgrep, I think you could've done:rg -l -g '!test*' -g '!idlelib' -g '!turtledemo' 'if __name__ ='
       
 (DIR) Post #AXBNVSrQFOoM2PqCdk by feudjais@syndicat.solidaires.org
       2023-06-29T11:45:11Z
       
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       @simon This is really incredible ! Thanks for that ! I knew about http.server but never thought of digging deeper to see what we could do with the same idea.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXBrQUa3QH2IY6GKEi by m8ta@fediscience.org
       2023-06-29T17:20:36Z
       
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       @simon Did not know about the tokenize and ast modules -- very useful!
       
 (DIR) Post #AXC8q0uS3lzFHAYgF6 by scruss@xoxo.zone
       2023-06-29T20:35:53Z
       
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       @simon this fails the standard library test, but pyserial's python3 -m serial.tools.minitermgets you a tiny but good-enough serial debug terminal for those awkward hardware moments
       
 (DIR) Post #AXCAUM7GjVKMaKM0cy by volcan01010@fosstodon.org
       2023-06-29T20:53:44Z
       
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       @simon Nice list. http.server is handy to get files off Windows machines.I like `python -m pdb -c continue my-script.py` to let me drop into a debugger if my script crashes.`pip` wasn't on the list, but `subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'geopandas'])` is how I install extra dependencies into the bundled Python environment of the QGIS mapping software.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXCNKckvJMeIhSalQu by jkerhin@fosstodon.org
       2023-06-29T23:18:11Z
       
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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
       
 (DIR) Post #AXCP9kO4nTyB5jqYbo by Eris@toot.cat
       2023-06-29T23:38:36Z
       
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       @simon http.server is the unsung hero. I’ve used the shit out of that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXCPqlENXJtg9yoyGW by austegard@mastodon.social
       2023-06-29T23:46:15Z
       
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       @simon https://mastodon.social/@austegard/110630112954237434