Loading a file into the interpreter

[Erik Max Francis]

Thomas Womack wrote:

> I'd like, from the command line of the python interpreter, to get the
> effect of having typed in the contents of some text file; the sort of
> thing I'd expect a "load" command to do.
> 
> I can do "python prog.py", but that doesn't leave me in the
> interpreter afterwards, and I'd often like to set some variables, load
> a program, and poke about to see what the variables look like
> afterwards.

Try

	python -i prog.py

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