Alternative to execfile in Python 3? [duplicate]

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The 2to3 script replaces

execfile(filename, globals, locals)

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exec(compile(open(filename, "rb").read(), filename, 'exec'), globals, locals)

This seems to be the official recommendation. You may want to use a with block to ensure that the file is promptly closed again:

with open(filename, "rb") as source_file:
    code = compile(source_file.read(), filename, "exec")
exec(code, globals, locals)

You can omit the globals and locals arguments to execute the file in the current scope, or use exec(code, {}) to use a new temporary dictionary as both the globals and locals dictionary, effectively executing the file in a new temporary scope.

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