Archived:How to execute a PySymbian script

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia N95, Nokia E90

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 1st Edition, S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition

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Platform Security

Capabilities: )

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Article

Keywords: execfile

Created: bogdan.galiceanu (20 Feb 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (06 Feb 2012)

Overview

This snippet shows how to execute a script in Python.

Source code

file_path = "C:\\python\\ball.py"
#The path of the script to be executed
 
#Execute the script
execfile(file_path)

Postconditions

The script is executed.

Additional information

In some cases there may be a NameError error in the executed script regarding variables not being defined (for example, if execfile(file_path) is called inside a function). To overcome this, execfile(file_path, {}) should be used, where the dictionary is the global namespace.