no module named http.server

Question

here is my web server class :

import http.server   import socketserver  class WebHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):      def parse_POST(self):         ctype, pdict = cgi.parse_header(self.headers['content-type'])         if ctype == 'multipart/form-data':             postvars = cgi.parse_multipart(self.rfile, pdict)         elif ctype == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded':             length = int(self.headers['content-length'])             postvars = urllib.parse.parse_qs(self.rfile.read(length),                                              keep_blank_values=1)         else:             postvars = {}         return postvars      def do_POST(self):         postvars = self.parse_POST()          print(postvars)          # reply with JSON         self.send_response(200)         self.send_header("Content-type", "application/json")         self.send_header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","*");         self.send_header("Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Access-Control-Allow-Origin");         self.send_header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");         self.end_headers()         json_response = json.dumps({'test': 42})         self.wfile.write(bytes(json_response, "utf-8")) 

when i run server i got "name 'http' is not defined" after import http.server then i got this "no module named http.server"

Answer 1

In python earlier than v3 you need to run http server as

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8069  #(8069=portnumber on which your python server is configured) 

Answer 2

http.server only exists in Python 3. In Python 2, you should use the BaseHTTPServer module:

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler 

should work just fine.