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Create a Simple HTTP File Server in Python

This code creates a simple HTTP file server that serves files from the current working directory on port 8000 using Python's built-in http.server module.

http server file-server

Python

import http.server
import socketserver
import os

PORT = 8000
DIRECTORY = os.getcwd()

class CustomHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, directory=DIRECTORY, **kwargs)

    def log_message(self, format, *args):
        print(f"[{self.log…

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How to Perform a DNS Lookup for A Records in Python

Resolve a hostname to IPv4 A records using Python's built-in socket.getaddrinfo and return a sorted list of addresses.

dns socket network

Python

import socket

def get_a_records(hostname):
    """Fetch A records (IPv4 addresses) for a given hostname."""
    try:
        # getaddrinfo with family AF_INET restricts to IPv4 (A records)
        infos = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None, socket.AF_INET)
        # Each info tuple: (family, type, proto, canonname, so…

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Scrape HTML Tables in Python with html.parser

Extract data from HTML tables using Python's built-in html.parser module, without third-party dependencies, by overriding callback methods to track table, row, and cell states.

html scraping parser

Python

import html.parser
from urllib.request import urlopen


class TableParser(html.parser.HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.in_table = False
        self.in_row = False
        self.in_cell = False
        self.current_cell = []
        self.rows = []
        self.row = []

    d…

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