How to run script from interpreter?

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 19-Jan-01 Dan Rolander wrote:
 >  This doesn't work for me. I know how to import and how to use the if
 >  __name__ trick, but how can I execute a script from the interactive Python
 >  interpreter? That is, can I load a script and have it run from inside the
 >  interpreter? (I'm sure this is easy I'm just not seeing it.)

Let's see... I think it was here somewhere... Ah, yes: In Python Library 
Reference, 2.3 Built-in Functions, at

  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html

execfile (file[, globals[, locals]]) 
     This function is similar to the exec statement, but parses a file 
     instead of a string. It is different from the import statement in 
     that it does not use the module administration -- it reads the file 
     unconditionally and does not create a new module.2.8 

     The arguments are a file name and two optional dictionaries. The 
     file is parsed and evaluated as a sequence of Python statements 
     (similarly to a module) using the globals and locals dictionaries
     as global and local namespace. If the locals dictionary is omitted 
     it defaults to the globals dictionary. If both dictionaries are 
     omitted, the expression is executed in the environment where 
     execfile() is called. The return value is None. 

HTH

/Mikael

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