loading files to the interpreter

[Riku Voipio]

In article <8mn1fj$r83$1 at tron.sci.fi>, "Riku Voipio"
<riku.voipio at nospam.iki.fi.invalid> wrote:
> It would be a lot easier, if I could just type in the interpreter
> something like 
> 
>>>load("~/programming/foo.py")
> 
> instead of copying the whole file (which can be very long). is there a
> way to  load code in the "fly"?

Blah, I just found a solution after returing to the python language reference:

>>> execfile 
<built-in function execfile>

does just what I want.