execfile

execfile(filename, globals=globals())

Execute file

Parameters

  • filename (string) - name of file to execute

  • globals (dictionary) - the environment for evaluation

Description

Python 3 removed the execfile builtin function. CASA provides a convenience function that attempts to reproduce the behavior of the Python 2.7 builtin execfile function.

execfile evaluates contents of filename in the environment specified by globals.

When execfile is used within the filename being evaluated, it is necessary to add globals( ) as the second argument to those execfile calls in order for the secondary script to know about the global variables of the calling script. For example, within a script ‘mainscript.py’, calls to another script ‘myscript.py’ should be written as execfile(‘myscript.py’, globals()).