#include equivalent
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Apr 3 04:06:44 EDT 2001
kragen at dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker) writes:
> Yeah, but there are problems with execfile():
> - it puts all the stuff in that file in *your* namespace (not a separate one)
> - circular execfile()s will hang your program and eventually crash
...
> - execfile()ing the same file from two different modules generates two
...
> - It takes more time (potentially *much* more time)
> - it takes more space (potentially *much* more space)
> - it breaks objects that try to determine whether other objects are
...
> - and it breaks any modules that try to maintain module state (like
...
So much more like #include then!
> So don't use execfile() instead of import.
Well, no, but that not really what was being proposed, was it?
Someone asked for an #include equivalent, and while import is probably
want they wanted, execfile is closer. Different things.
Cheers,
M.
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