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Addressing RDM's review comments on the doc change.
| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:37:32 +0000 |
| parents | 84fefbf1d6c0 |
| children | ba9cf0df21b0 |
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--- a/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst Wed Jun 16 14:55:31 2010 +0000 +++ b/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst Wed Jun 16 17:37:32 2010 +0000 @@ -82,15 +82,16 @@ ``text/`` the file is opened in text mode; otherwise binary mode is used. The :func:`test` function in the :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module is an - example which interfaces the :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` as a - Handler to the :mod:`BaseHTTPServer` module. + example which creates a server using the + :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` as the Handler. .. versionadded:: 2.5 The ``'Last-Modified'`` header. The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module can be used the following manner in order to -setup a very basic web server serving files relative to the current directory.:: +set up a very basic web server serving files relative to the current +directory.:: import SimpleHTTPServer import SocketServer @@ -104,8 +105,9 @@ print "serving at port", PORT httpd.serve_forever() -It can also be invoked directly using the ``-m`` switch of interpreter a with -``port number`` argument.:: +:mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module can also be invoked directly using the ``-m`` +switch of interpreter with a ``port number`` argument. Similar to previous +example, this serves the files relative to the current directory.:: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
