How can I serve files with UTF-8 encoding using Python SimpleHTTPServer?

Question

I often use the following to quickly fire up a web server to serve HTML content from the current folder (for local testing):

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
         


        

Answer 1

You can run it with Python scripts too.

from functools import partial
from http.server import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, test
import os

print('http://localhost:8000/')
wk_dir = os.getcwd()
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map = {k: v + ';charset=UTF-8' for k, v in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map.items()}
test(HandlerClass=partial(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, directory=wk_dir), port=8000, bind='')

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Since test is not in http.server.__all__ so IDE may show a warning, and if you don't want to see it, you can use importlib instead of it. for example:

import importlib
http_server = importlib.import_module('http.server')
http_server.test(HandlerClass=partial(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, directory=wk_dir), port=8000, bind='')