I’m going to do my best to either write up some examples of how to use these or link to someone/somewhere else on the
internet where someone did a better job then my grammar handicapped self can
For those to lazy to click the above liniks, the list below is a semi-complete list of command line accessible modules
to perform utility work.
So python -m calendar prints out a pretty calendar of the year, much like the GNU linux cal command line function.
- json.tool -> pretty prints JSON Examples
- SimpleHTTPServer -> serve the current directory over HTTP on port 8080 Examples
- quopri / uu / binhex / base64 -> encode / decode Quoted-Printable / UUEncoded content.
- telnetlib -> ghetto telnet client
- filecmp -> directory entry comparison tool
- ftplib -> ghetto FTP client
- smtpd -> SMTP proxy
- timeit -> command line profiling interface. Very handy
- calendar -> prints year calendar
- urllib -> ghetto wget Example
- zipfile -> ghetto info-zip
- aifc -> dumps some info about the provided aiff file (if given two paths, also copies path1 to path2)
- cgi -> dumps a bunch of information as HTML to stdout
- CGIHTTPRequestHandler -> same as SimpleHTTPServer except via the CGIHTTPRequestHandler: it will executes scripts it recognizes as CGI, instead of just sending them over (has not survived the transition to Python 3)
- compileall -> compiles a tree of Python files to bytecode, has a bunch of options. Does not compile to stripped files (pyo)
- cProfiler -> runs the provided script file (argument) under cProfiler
- dis -> disassembles a python script Example
- doctest -> runs doctests on the provided files (which can be python scripts or doctest files)
- encodings.rot_13 -> rot13 encodes stdin to stdout (has not survived the transition to Python 3)
- fileinput -> some kind of ghetto pseudo-annotate. No idea what use that thing might be of
- formatter -> reformats the provided file argument (or stdin) to stdout: 80c paragraphs &etc
- gzip -> ghetto gzip (or gunzip with -d), can only compress and decompress, does not delete the archive file
- htmllib -> strips HTML tags off of an HTML file
- imaplib -> ghetto IMAP client
- locale -> displays current locale information
- mimify -> converts (mail) messages to and from MIME format
- modulefinder -> lists the modules imported by the provided script argument, and their location
- pdb scriptfile.py -> automatically enters PDB post-mortem mode if the script crashes
platform, displays the platform string - poplib -> dumps a bunch of info on a POP mailbox
- profile -> see cProfile
- pstats -> opens a statistics browser (for profile files)
- pydoc -> same as the pydoc command Example
- sgmllib -> see htmllib (as far as I can tell)
- shlex -> displays tokenization result of the provided file argument (one token per line prefixed with Token:)
- SimpleXMLRPCServer -> XMLRPC server for power and addition
- telnetlib -> telnet client
- tokenize -> dumps tokenization result of a Python file
- webbrowser -> opens provided URL in your default web browser (options: in a new window, in a new tab)
- whichdb -> A helpful little tool to try and tell which DB-api driver to use on a specified DB file