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ajgreeny · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: LXF 152 Tip of the Month.

I believe there is a misprint in the Tip of the Month on page 75 of the LXF 152 magazine, as I have just spent a while trying to get the tip to work, ie, the "Instant web server" using python.

To start I could not find the character you printed in the command which I show here in red.
python -≠m SimpleHTTPServer 1111
I presume this must be a non-printing character which should not have shown in the magazine, as it does not even appear in the character map on my gnome 2.32 ubuntu 10.04, and I could not reproduce it in any way.

Being a subscriber, I copied the command from the pdf of the magazine and tried that, but that showed an "unknown option -" I then tried the command without the odd character and, BINGO! it worked without a problem.

What a useful facility/utility for quick file viewing (and transfers) around the LAN; just like giver.
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nelz · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject:

You're right, that character shouldn't be there. The correct command is

Spangwiches · Joined: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:50 am Posts: 77

Just as a note, on newer Pythons (I'm on 3.2.2, I don't know when it changed though) it's:

python -m http.server
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ajgreeny · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:37 pm Post subject:

I pasted that from the text file I sent in (I wrote that tip) and watching the character counter in Kate, there is an invisible character between the - and m.
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ajgreeny · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:34 am Post subject:

Fair enough.

I won't ask why, I will just nod my head and slowly back away.
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nelz · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:46 am Post subject:

It's a non-typing character, 0xAD, so I didn't put it there. It probably got picked up in a cut and paste.
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Arno · Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:33 pm Posts: 2

If you want a software like Giver, you can try Transfer on LAN ( http://code.google.com/p/transfer-on-lan/ ). It's cross-platform, open source an requires no configuration.

nelz · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject:

The point about the tip is that it not only needs no configuration, it needs no installation either because distros come with Python as standard.

That's not to say that Transfer-on-LAN couldn't be useful, it looks like it could, but this is a tip for a quick to set up file transfer without needing to install or set up anything - just one command. However, it does work better with the command correctly typed Sad

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Arno · Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:33 pm Posts: 2

OK. But, I just tried to answer the ajgreeny's question about Giver :

nelz · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:05 am Post subject:

Of course, and it does look useful.
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ajgreeny · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: a software like Giver