How to minify your css file using Python

If you are using Python for backend web development it is simple and convenient to use the Python minifier rCSSmin.

The github page for rCSSmin is rCSSmin - A CSS Minifier For Python

Install rcssmin with pip as follows :

pip install rcssmin

If you have a css file named mysite.css, then you can use redirect this file into the Python and it will output the minified css to standard output :

python -m rcssmin < mysite.css

You can redirect the output into a file like this:

python -m rcssmin < mysite.css > mysite.min.css