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Miki Tebeka

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Jan 11, 2015, 11:18:06 PM1/11/15
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Greetings,

I've compiled a list of "python -m" tools at pythonwise.blogspot.com/2015/01/python-m.html.

Did I miss something? What are your favorite "python -m" tools?

Thanks,
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Steven D'Aprano

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Jan 12, 2015, 12:24:16 AM1/12/15
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The three I use all the time are:

- doctools
- unittest
- my own custom test suites



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Christian Heimes

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Jan 12, 2015, 1:09:18 AM1/12/15
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My all time favorite is "python -me", https://pypi.python.org/pypi/e.
It's a small yet elegant tool for the command line.

Christian



Chris Angelico

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Jan 12, 2015, 1:26:48 AM1/12/15
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Christian Heimes <chri...@python.org> wrote:
> My all time favorite is "python -me", https://pypi.python.org/pypi/e.
> It's a small yet elegant tool for the command line.

That's cool!

ChrisA

Irmen de Jong

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Jan 13, 2015, 6:01:34 PM1/13/15
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python -m calendar
python -m test.pystone
python -m antigravity


Irmen

Albert-Jan Roskam

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Jan 14, 2015, 4:39:22 AM1/14/15
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cool, thanks.

You say "Python 2.7.9 and 3.x comes with an easy way to install pip. Run python -m ensurepip and pypi is at your service." .

But here https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html it says that "This module does not access the internet. All of the components needed to bootstrap pip are included as internal parts of the package." So pypi is not involved, right?

Albert-Jan

alex23

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Jan 14, 2015, 11:16:23 PM1/14/15
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On 14/01/2015 7:33 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> You say "Python 2.7.9 and 3.x comes with an easy way to install pip. Run python -m ensurepip and pypi is at your service." .
> But here https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html it says that "This module does not access the internet. All of the components needed to bootstrap pip are included as internal parts of the package." So pypi is not involved, right?

The original comment doesn't mean that PyPI is involved in the
installation, but that installing it allows for packages to be installed
via PyPI. Obviously that isn't true if you're not net-enabled, but pip
can still handy for installing local packages.

Miki Tebeka

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Jan 16, 2015, 4:57:47 AM1/16/15
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Thanks for all the answers!
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