What is the Python 3 equivalent of “python -m SimpleHTTPServer”

Question

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

Answer 1

In one of my projects I run tests against Python 2 and 3. For that I wrote a small script which starts a local server independently:

$ python -m $(python -c 'import sys; print("http.server" if sys.version_info[:2] > (2,7) else "SimpleHTTPServer")')
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

As an alias:

$ alias serve="python -m $(python -c 'import sys; print("http.server" if sys.version_info[:2] > (2,7) else "SimpleHTTPServer")')"
$ serve
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

Please note that I control my Python version via conda environments, because of that I can use python instead of python3 for using Python 3.