Calling Python Code Snippets within Python Application

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Mon Apr 14 09:58:32 EDT 2003


Marc Floessel <gildemere at hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is very likely a newbie question, but I'd still appreciate a
> pointer. I need to call Python Code snippets (saved in a file/database
> etc) within my main Python Application. I would like to do the
> following things: [...]
> In which direction should I look?

The "execfile" builtin function.

while you're at it, you might want to look at "exec" and "eval", too.
Unlike the functions "eval" and "execfile", "exec" is a statement, btw.

-- Gerhard




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