Newbie Q: Import code at run-time?

[James Knowles]

> check out execfile().

This works like a charm. 

Out of curiosity, I tried the other. The module appears to load, but it
doesn't seem to import the symbols into the global namespace. 

Thank you very much for putting up with the newbie question.

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