Reading command line arguments

sys.argv is a list which contains the command-line arguments passed to script

• First argument is the script name

import sys
if __name__=="__main__":
    print("Arguments are: ",sys.argv)
    print("Length: ",len(sys.argv))
    print("First argument is script name: ",sys.argv[0])

$ python reading-arguments.py
Arguments are:  ['reading-arguments.py']
Length:  1
First argument is script name:  reading-arguments.py

$ python reading-arguments.py argument1
Arguments are:  ['reading-arguments.py', 'argument1']
Length:  2
First argument is script name:  reading-arguments.py

Starting a simple python web server

Python has http server module . The module can be executed and it by default it binds to 8000 on all the Ethernet interfaces.

This will expose current working directory

$ python -m http.server
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

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