function namespaces

[Max Erickson]

Darren Dale wrote:
> def myfunction(filename):
>         execfile(filename)
>         print testvar
>

> What am I doing wrong?

I'm not familiar enough with execfile or the interactive interpreter to
know what you are doing wrong, but something like:

def myfunction(filename):
  ns=dict()
  execfile(filename, ns)
  print ns['testvar']

should at least get you going. There is probably a way to pass the
namespace of the function to execfile, but I do not know it.

max