How to run another .py file w/o exec command?

[Guest]

Hi everybody,

I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I can't find it. How can I execute
another .py file from my first .py file without using an exec* command?
They're both in the same directory, and it would be nice to have some
run("another.py ") type statement as opposed to a big exec with absolute
pathnames and garbage like that.

It works the way I have it, but it just seems like a bad way in general to
do it. I'm runnning Python 2.3.3 on win32.

Thanks!
CaptainN

[Christian von Essen]

Re: How to run another .py file w/o exec command?

CaptainN@altel. net wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I can't find it. How can I execute
> another .py file from my first .py file without using an exec* command?
> They're both in the same directory, and it would be nice to have some
> run("another.py ") type statement as opposed to a big exec with absolute
> pathnames and garbage like that.
>
> It works the way I have it, but it just seems like a bad way in general to
> do it. I'm runnning Python 2.3.3 on win32.
>
> Thanks!
> CaptainN
>
>
>[/color]
I'm really new to python, but there are several ways with the import
statement:
1) If the code you want to execute is not in a class but just like this:
File: other.py
class A:
pass

print "You've called me!"

then you can just import it with "import other" and the print statement
gets executed, like any other thing at column 0
2) If 1) is not the case i.e.
File: other.py
class A:
pass

def method():
print "You've called me!"

you can import it with "import other", too and just do "other.method() "
or "from other import *" and "method()"

Christian von Essen

[Miki Tebeka]

Re: How to run another .py file w/o exec command?

Hello CaptainN,
[color=blue]
> I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I can't find it. How can I execute
> another .py file from my first .py file without using an exec* command?
> They're both in the same directory, and it would be nice to have some
> run("another.py ") type statement as opposed to a big exec with absolute
> pathnames and garbage like that.[/color]

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#built-in-funcs

Search for execfile

HTH.
Miki

[r holland]

Re: How to run another .py file w/o exec command?

you can try this

import os
os.system("pyth on example.py")