Problem porting class to python3.2

[Nick Buchholz]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:18:18 -0700
 "Nick Buchholz" <nbuchholz at noao.edu> wrote:
>Hi all,
>    I've been wandering through the DOCs for an hour and haven't found a solution to this
>I'm just starting to convert from 2.5 to 3.2 and I have a problem. I have a code that looks like this.
> 
...code removed 
>
First thanks to all who replied. FYI the classes in the file have been working in various 
environments since I wrote them in python1.3 and updated them to python 2.x in 2005.

I think I solved the problem, well not solved in that I don't know why the technique I used failed.
but at least the code works when used as an import.

Under my 2.5 system I had a startup file that included the line
ld = execfile

mostly because I got tired of typing execfile('filename') to load in a file I was testing

2to3 complained it couldn't parse this line so I changed to

def ld(filename):
    exec(compile(open(file).read(), file, 'exec'))

when I tried 
ld('starDate.py') at the python3.2 prompt I got the indicated errors

if at the prompt I instead type 
import starDate

I get no errors and the classes and methods work as expected.  I'm sure this is a 
name space problem but I don't know what the problem is. Its obvious that the 3.2 
replacement for execfile does not have the same effect as execfile.

Thanks again
Nick
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