execute file interactively

[Fernando Pérez]

Jason wrote:

> When using the Python interpreter interactively, how can I execute a
> file, so I can use the function definitions and data defined in it
> interactively.

See:
http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython/

The @run command does exactly what you want, including passing things that 
will look to your file like command line arguments.

In regular python, you can use execfile('filename.py'). There may be 
namespace issues there, and if you want to pass arguments you need to fix 
sys.argv yourself.

Cheers,

f.