PYTHON(1)

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💖 PYTHON(1) 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the PYTHON(1) manual page, you're gonna eat this up, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

python — multi-tool for exploring and publishing data 🌈

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

python -m datasette [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

that's the whole vibe, no cap 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data ✨ like, it literally does the most and it's not even sorry.

About Datasette: https://datasette.io/

Full documentation: https://docs.datasette.io/

if you want the full lore bestie, those two links are the main character energy you need 🔥

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • --version — shows you the version and then dips, exit stage left 👋
  • --help — shows this exact message and exits, it's giving helpful icon 💖

🎀 Commands 🎀

so here's the whole squad of commands, and yes they're all lowkey iconic 🧚

  • serve* — Serve up specified SQLite database files with a web UI 👑 (the * means she's the star of the show, the default, the main character)
  • inspect — Generate JSON summary of provided database files 🔍
  • install — Install plugins and packages from PyPI into the same... 📦
  • package — Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container 🐳
  • plugins — List currently installed plugins 🌟
  • publish — Publish specified SQLite database files to the internet... 🌐
  • uninstall — Uninstall plugins and Python packages from the Datasette... 🗑️
ngl bestie, a few of those descriptions end in ... in the original and i am NOT about to invent the rest of the sentence for you — that would be a lie and lying is not slay 🙈

and that's the page, fr fr 🫶 this was python -m datasette, version 0..., dated August 2026, and it's filed under PYTHON(1) in the User Commands section. periodt 💅💖✨

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