execfile

The 2to3 script replaces execfile(filename, globals, locals) by 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 … Read more