execfile environment??

[Harald Kirsch]

"Konicki, Jason" <jkonicki at harris.com> writes:

> I am trying to call a module with the execfile function. Is there a way to
> specify the paths to search for the module I am calling? 
> For example:
> 
> def call_module(module_name):
> 	# addition checks required before executing
>                 print "Executing "+module_name
>                 execfile(module_name)
>         
> When I call this function, I want it to find "module_name", i.e testing.py,
> within the sys.path.

Recently I did that like

import imp
exec imp.find_module("synpatterns")[0]
del imp

which might be close enough to what you want to do.

  Harald Kirsch
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