Portable Python 3 script (Mac OS/Linux) for running a local server and visualizing a website/html page. Once the page is generated, the server is shutdown and cleaned. This allows for rapid reuse for modifications or for generating another independent website.

Suppose you have the following directory structure:

website/
       index.html
       style/
            style.css

To render the website, copy custom_server.pyto the website/ directory and run the following command from within that directory:

python custom_server.py

This should open up your browser and render your website. If you use something different than index.html, you can alternatively use:

python custom_server.py foo.html

If you want to render foo.html.