Generally, I avoid execfile within a function. What's your use case? There may be a better way to approach this problem...
I am writing a simulation that loads some predefined constants, depending on the options called by the user. I originally had it set up to parse the file, and load the constants explicitly, but then I thought that with the existence of this handy builtin execfile, I could make write my constants file in python, and just load it. I guess it is not the best approach. Thanks for the advice though (everyone), I learned something.
Aha!
Think about using the dreaded (and dangerous, but in your case potentially extremely useful)
from config import *
regards Steve
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