Pretty-print JSON with Python's json.tool

Pretty-print a JSON file using Python (v2.5+)'s built-in json.tool module:

cat MYFILE.json | python -m json.tool

Python one-liner for reading a CSV file into a JSON array of arrays

Reading a CSV file into 2-d Python array (an array of arrays):

import csv
array = list(csv.reader(open( MYFILE.csv )))

Dumping that as JSON (via the command-line):

$ python -c "import json,csv;print json.dumps(list(csv.reader(open( CSV-FILENAME ))))"

Short list of language names recognized by pygments.

pygments language identifiers I use or have had to look up at one time or another.

• Antlr-Ruby - antlr-ruby/antlr-rb
• awk - awk/gawk/mawk/nawk
• Bash - bash/sh/ksh for shell scripts, console for interactive session captures
• Clojure - clj/closure
• CoffeeScript - coffee-script/coffeescript
• CSS - css
• diff output - diff/ udiff
• Haml/Sass/Scss - haml, sass, scss
• HTML - html
• HTTP transcripts - http
• JavaScript - js/javascript
• JSON - json
• Lisp - cl/common-lisp
• make - make/makefile/mf, cmake, basemake, bsdmake
• nginx configuration files - ngnix
• Postscript - postscript
• Ruby - ruby for .rb files, irb for interactive console captures
• Scheme - scm/scheme
• SQL - sql, mysql, psql, postgresql-console/postgres-console, sqlite3
• TeX/LaTeX - tex, latex
• Text - text (the no-op highlighter)
• XML/XSLT/XQuery - xml, xslt, xquery
• Yaml - yaml

Also see the list of languages supported by Pygments and the list of lexers included with Pygments.

Launch an HTTP server serving the current directory using Python

The Python SimpleHTTPServer module makes it easy to launch a simple web server using a current working directory as the "docroot".

With Python 2:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

or with Python 3:

python3 -m http.server

By default, each will bind to port 8080, hence http://localhost:8080/ will serve the top level of the working directory tree. Hit Ctrl-c to stop.

Both accept an optional port number:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3001

or

python3 -m http.server 3001

if you want to bind to something other than port 8080.