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  r78416 | dirkjan.ochtman | 2010-02-23 23:12:11 -0500 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8004: add a serve target to the Doc Makefile.
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  r78430 | dirkjan.ochtman | 2010-02-24 12:06:31 -0500 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add some notes about Tools/scripts/serve.py.
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Tools/scripts/serve.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+'''
+Small wsgiref based web server. Takes a path to serve from and an
+optional port number (defaults to 8000), then tries to serve files.
+Mime types are guessed from the file names, 404 errors are thrown
+if the file is not found. Used for the make serve target in Doc.
+'''
+import sys
+import os
+import mimetypes
+from wsgiref import simple_server, util
+
+def app(environ, respond):
+
+    fn = os.path.join(path, environ['PATH_INFO'][1:])
+    if '.' not in fn.split(os.path.sep)[-1]:
+        fn = os.path.join(fn, 'index.html')
+    type = mimetypes.guess_type(fn)[0]
+
+    if os.path.exists(fn):
+        respond('200 OK', [('Content-Type', type)])
+        return util.FileWrapper(open(fn))
+    else:
+        respond('404 Not Found', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
+        return ['not found']
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    path = sys.argv[1]
+    port = int(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else 8000
+    httpd = simple_server.make_server('', port, app)
+    httpd.serve_forever()