python_doc_md/Intermediate/library/cmdline.md

Modules command-line interface (CLI) {#library-cmdline}

The following modules have a command-line interface.

• ast <ast-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• asyncio <asyncio-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• base64{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• calendar <calendar-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• code{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• compileall <compileall-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• cProfile: see profiling.tracing <profiling-tracing-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• dis <dis-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• doctest <doctest-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• !encodings.rot_13{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• ensurepip <ensurepip-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• filecmp{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• fileinput{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• ftplib{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• gzip <gzip-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• http.server <http-server-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• idlelib <idlelib-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• inspect <inspect-module-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• json <json-commandline>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• mimetypes <mimetypes-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• pdb <pdb-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• pickle <pickle-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• pickletools <pickletools-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• platform <platform-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• poplib{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• profiling.sampling <profiling-sampling>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• profiling.tracing <profiling-tracing-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• pstats <pstats-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• py_compile <py_compile-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• pyclbr{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• pydoc{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• quopri{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• random <random-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• runpy{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• site <site-commandline>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• sqlite3 <sqlite3-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• symtable <symtable-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• sysconfig <sysconfig-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• tabnanny{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• tarfile <tarfile-commandline>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• !this{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• timeit <timeit-command-line-interface>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• tokenize <tokenize-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• trace <trace-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• turtledemo{.interpreted-text role="mod"}
• unittest <unittest-command-line-interface>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• uuid <uuid-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• venv <venv-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• webbrowser <webbrowser-cli>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• zipapp <zipapp-command-line-interface>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
• zipfile <zipfile-commandline>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}

See also the Python command-line interface <using-on-general>{.interpreted-text role="ref"}.