Re: question about exec() and compile()

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> I have a file that looks like this:
> t = 1
>
> def Test():
> print 't = ' + `t`
>
> def test2():
> print 'calling Test()'
> Test()
>
>
> I read in the file and want to execute test2().
>
> So I do the following:
>
> f = open('file','r')
> a = f.read()
> f.close()
> a_c = compile(a,'<string>','exec')
> local_ns = {}
> global_ns = {}
> exec(a_c,global_ns,local_ns)

exec(a_c,local_ns,local_ns)

now I can say:
local_ns['test2']()

and the result will be

calling Test()
t = 1

This is what I wanted to be able to do..
Sorry for wasting net-bandwidth on this..

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