execfile is a Python 2.x. built-in function that executes Python scripts from files.
Questions tagged [execfile]
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execfile with automatic relative path
I need to be able to call python scripts via execfile() from outside the working directory without specifying the relative file path each time through the interpreter.
instead of:
execfile("..\\UserScripts\\HelloWorld.py")
I need to…
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Python: NameError: global name 'x' is not defined
In my main() function I open a config file:
cfg = {}
execfile("config.conf", cfg)
config.conf looks like this:
x = 10
Later on, I use cfg[x], which gives me NameError: global name 'x' is not defined.
I took the example from here, how I use it,…
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Timeout on an execfile call function for windows? (Signal Alternative?)
Pretty much as the title says, I'm trying to run some execfile calls but I am looking for a timeout option so that if my called script takes over ten seconds to run then it will kill the called script and continue...
The signal library/package is…
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Executing a script within a script but continuing on error(s) and saving them to file
If I was to have the following bit of code:
try:
execfile("script.py")
except ## unsure what exception goes here...
continue:
try:
execfile("other.py")
except ## unsure what exception goes here...
continue:
How do I catch all…
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Python metaclass, execfile, inspect, globals(), namespace
When the following script is run directly, it operates as anticipated:
import inspect
__module__ = "__main__"
__file__ = "classes.py"
test_str = "test"
class met(type):
def __init__(cls, name, bases, dct):
setattr(cls, "source",…
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jython error "Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0""
i tried to run a python script using Jython,
from javax.swing import JButton,JFrame
def action():
execfile(r"E:\stack.py")
frame = JFrame("window")
button = JButton("button", actionPerformed = action)
frame.add(button)
frame.show()
But it's…
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Unknown url handler type, execfile is not defined
Trying to implement the tutorial 'Hello world'.
When I select Python 3.1 nothing happens and the log says that execfile(script_path, globals_)
is not defined.
When I use python 2.7 the terminal window opens but nothing happens for a while and then…
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execute python script with argparse inside python script
I got two different python script, the first one is using argparse to get some additional argument (I will call it arg.py) and the second one is my main script (main.py).
I want to call arg.py inside main.py but I don't know how to do so. I take a…
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Iterate a Python script over files, with wildcard expansion, and passing through args
I have some scripts which do some processing on a file. Typically they accept the file as their first command-line argument, and other arguments after that.
I want to write a master script which accepts the name of the script to run, a wildcard…
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Global name is not defined when running script with closures with execfile
I am trying to run script2 from script1 with execfile and script2 contains closures:
script1.py
MyVar1 = 'value1'
def fun1():
print(MyVar1)
def fun2():
execfile('script2.py')
fun1()
fun2()
script2.py
MyVar2 = 'value2'
def…
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Initialize only once
I've got a couple of scripts (named one.py and two.py) circularly calling each other using execfile. The one.py (which is the one to start) has some code (initialize) that I would like to execute only once.
I would like to continue using execfile…
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Alternative to the python "Execfile" in JAVA?
I was wondering if there where any same command as execfile ( from Python ) to java?
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Making an Exe file with pyinstaller
If suppose I use the function execfile in my python script and then I use pyinstaller to convert that python script into an executable file then will that executable file work?What pyisntaller does is look for import statement and then include those…
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