From: Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:06:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add some notes about Tools/scripts/serve.py.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a4~112
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60677a78f8df722a92b57732496cbd97e014849d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add some notes about Tools/scripts/serve.py.
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diff --git a/Tools/scripts/README b/Tools/scripts/README
index 4181f8f38cde..eaf9aee5b57b 100644
--- a/Tools/scripts/README
+++ b/Tools/scripts/README
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ pysource.py		Find Python source files
 redemo.py		Basic regular expression demonstration facility
 reindent.py		Change .py files to use 4-space indents.
 rgrep.py		Reverse grep through a file (useful for big logfiles)
+serve.py		Small wsgiref-based web server, used in make serve in Doc
 setup.py		Install all scripts listed here
 suff.py			Sort a list of files by suffix
 svneol.py		Sets svn:eol-style on all files in directory
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/serve.py b/Tools/scripts/serve.py
index 09d850abced9..61de63d19589 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/serve.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/serve.py
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 #!/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