"Steve Holden" schrieb > > > > [ difference between exec open(fname).read() > > and for line in open(fname): exec line ] > > > > So it seems to depend on the way the file is read. > > > It depends on the way the lines of the file are executed, > not how they are read. > Could you elaborate a little bit more on the difference? I assumed that because read() reads the whole file, the body of my function sowhat() is present, so that it can be parsed while the invocation of exec is still running. If it is read and exec'd line by line, the definition of the function is still left open at the moment exec() ends, causing the "EOF" error. Hence my statement, "it depends on the way the file is read".
> And you may remember the original poster was > proposing this: > > inp = open(cmd_file) > for line in inp: > exec line > > As for your first example, why not just use execfile() ? > I assume that execfile(fname) is equivalent to exec open(fname).read() ? Regards Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
