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Sorry to see that your question hasn’t received an answer yet. I’ve just spun up a new Docker Droplet (17.12.0~ce on 16.04) and was able to access port 8000 using both commands you posted, as well as just docker run --net=host -it python python -m http.server. I had to open port 8000 on the firewall, though (ufw allow 8000).
It’s possible that it was a temporary issue that was resolved.