Expose a directory on a local webserver with Python 3

Sometimes I want to view some html files from my file system in the browser. With Python 2, you could use the SimpleHTTP-module to start a web server with the current directory as document root like so:

$ ls .
foo.html
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

On my new Linux installation

Manjaro linux

the Python defaults to Python 3. Today I learned how to start a web server with Python 3:

$ ls .
foo.html
$ python -m http.server 8080
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 (http://0.0.0.0:8080/) ...

The port number is optional. Open `http://localhost:8080/foo.html` in your web browser to view `foo.html`.

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