loading files to the interpreter

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Riku Voipio wrote:
> 
> 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>

Normally you would do

  import foo

and 

  reload(foo)

but I'm not quite sure which semantics you're looking for..

-- bjorn