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authorDirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>2010-02-24 17:06:31 (GMT)
committerDirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>2010-02-24 17:06:31 (GMT)
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#!/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