return values from scripts

[Alexis Lê-Quôc]

If you do execfile ('second.py', locals ()) and have second.py look like:

do_some_stuff ()
globals ()["x"]= 7

then the enclosing .py will have a local variable named "x", whose value is
7.

-- Alexis Le-Quoc


--- Mike Burnett <mnb at ornl.gov> wrote:
> While running a script in the python interpreter, I need to run a second
> script from the first, passing some values to the second.  I know I can
> do this with: execfile('second.py',locals()).  Is there any way to get
> back into the original script one value (a return status) from the
> second script?  Is there any way to get several parameter values back?
> 
> Mike Burnett
> burnettmn at ornl.gov
> 
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list


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Alexis Le-Quoc
New York

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