What is the Python 3 equivalent of "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

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ryanbraganza picture ryanbraganza · Oct 30, 2011 · Viewed 568.7k times · Source

What is the Python 3 equivalent of python -m SimpleHTTPServer?

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Petr Viktorin picture Petr Viktorin · Oct 30, 2011

From the docs:

The SimpleHTTPServer module has been merged into http.server in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0.

So, your command is python -m http.server, or depending on your installation, it can be:

python3 -m http.server

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