Python `-m`
How -m is invoked
if you have a module foo
write foo/ init.py main.py
then python -m foo will execute main.py
https://pythonwise.blogspot.sg/2015/01/python-m.html
json pretty print
cat some_json_file | python -m json.tool
zipfile
zipfile.py -l zipfile.zip # Show listing of a zipfile zipfile.py -t zipfile.zip # Test if a zipfile is valid zipfile.py -e zipfile.zip target # Extract zipfile into target dir zipfile.py -c zipfile.zip src ... # Create zipfile from sources
gzip
python -m gzip wordlist.txt # Will create wordlist.txt.gz python -m gzip -d wordlist.txt.gz # Will extract to wordlist.txt
filecmp
compare two directories
$ python -m filecmp /tmp/a /tmp/b diff /tmp/a /tmp/b Only in /tmp/a : ['1'] Only in /tmp/b : ['2'] Identical files : ['4'] Differing files : ['3']
Several modules lets you encode/decode in various formats: • base64 • uu • encodings.rot_13 • binhex • mimify • quopri For example $ echo 'secertpassword' | python -m encodings.rot_13 frpregcnffjbeq
servers
python -m SimpleHTTPServer # 2 python -m http.server #3
python -m pydoc {module/func}
Profiling
python -m cProfile script.py python -m timeit script.py python -m pstats script.py python -m trace script.py