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Python's many command-line utilities


Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.

Python's json.tool module can be run as a script to parse a JSON document and print out a version that's formatted nicely for human readability. Or running Python on a Linux/Mac machine without the ability to easily install common command-line utilities like uuid, sqlite3 and gzip? Running the sysconfig module as a script will show a huge amount of information about your Python installation.

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