Python

Ever need to download a file from a server – or get someone else to download a file from a server, who may not be comfortable with or should have access to scp or sftp? Turns out, if you have Python installed – and you probably do – it comes with a handy one-liner file server for just such an occasion: 1 python -m http.server 12345 # or whatever port you prefer Then to close the server, just Ctrl+C....

First get a working script. “Hey GPT-4, write me a ChatGPT script that does .” Manually check over the script and iterate until it’s giving me what I want. “Now wrap the script into a click command-line interface.” I almost always specify to use an --input flag and an --output flag. If the data it’s working with is human-readable, “Make it so that if --input is not specified, it reads data from stdin....