Python 2 print headers and content of url


python -c 'import urllib2; resp = urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:10888/cgi-bin/hello.py"); print resp.info(), resp.read()'


Python 3 print headers and content of url


python3 -c 'import urllib.request; resp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:10888/cgi-bin/hello.py"); print(resp.info(), resp.read().decode("utf-8"))'


Python 3 CGI web server with cgi-bin directory


python3 -c 'import http.server; http.server.HTTPServer(("", 10888), http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()'


Python cgi web server with cgi-bin and htbin


python -m CGIHTTPServer 10080


Python 3 web server the current directory


python3 -m http.server 10030


Python web server the current directory


python -m SimpleHTTPServer 10080


Python as a shell


ipython -p pysh


Reversing a string in python – version special case


python -c 'print "The rain in spain."[::-1]'


Reversing a string in python – version after sleeping on it


python -c 'print "The rain in spain."[-1::-1]'


Reversing a string in python – version the first


python -c 's = "The rain in spain falls mainly on the plain."; print "".join(s[c] for c in xrange(len(s) - 1, -1, -1))'


python list sort

python -c 'x=["hello","my","friend"];x.sort();print x'

python one liners start with -c

python -c 'hw=[x for x in "hello world".title().partition()];x=len(hw);(x*"%s"+"!")%tuple(hw)'