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

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

The equivalent is:

python3 -m http.server

Answer 3

Using 2to3 utility.

$ cat try.py
import SimpleHTTPServer

$ 2to3 try.py
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: Refactored try.py
--- try.py  (original)
+++ try.py  (refactored)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-import SimpleHTTPServer
+import http.server
RefactoringTool: Files that need to be modified:
RefactoringTool: try.py

Answer 4

In addition to Petr's answer, if you want to bind to a specific interface instead of all the interfaces you can use -b/--bind flag.

python -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1

The above snippet should do the trick. 8000 is the port number. 80 is used as the standard port for HTTP communications.

Answer 5

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.