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  r82018 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-06-16 20:25:31 +0530 (Wed, 16 Jun 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue8937 - SimpleHTTPServer should contain usage example
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diff --git a/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst b/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst
index bdf66d1cbb..79e01d0ea5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst
@@ -81,12 +81,34 @@ The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines the following class:
       contents of the file are output. If the file's MIME type starts with
       ``text/`` the file is opened in text mode; otherwise binary mode is used.
 
-      For example usage, see the implementation of the :func:`test` function.
+      The :func:`test` function in the :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module is an
+      example which interfaces the :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` as a
+      Handler to the :mod:`BaseHTTPServer` module.
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.5
          The ``'Last-Modified'`` header.
 
 
+The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module can be used the following manner in order to
+setup a very basic web server serving files relative to the current directory.::
+
+        import SimpleHTTPServer
+        import SocketServer
+
+        PORT = 8000
+
+        Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+        httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
+
+        print "serving at port", PORT
+        httpd.serve_forever()
+
+It can also be invoked directly using the ``-m`` switch of interpreter a with
+``port number`` argument.::
+
+        python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
+
 .. seealso::
 
    Module :mod:`BaseHTTPServer`