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How to execute a Python file in Python shell?
To execute a Python file in the python shell, you could use either the execfile method or the exec method.
Example
For example, you want to run a script called my_script.py that only contains the line:
print("Greetings from my_script")from the python shell, you could simply enter:
>>> execfile('my_script.py')
Greetings from my_scriptOr you could use the exec method as follows:
>>> exec(open("my_script.py").read())
Greetings from my_script
Published on 27-Dec-2017 06:27:47
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