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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:51:58 -0400
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On 9/11/2013 7:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote:

> Er? That doesn't address the task of importing a module from a source
> code file given its path on the filesystem.
>
> Other languages have the equivalent of =E2=80=98include "/path/to/file.=
py"=E2=80=99,

Some includes are equivalent to

with open("/path/to/file.py") as f:
   exec(f.read())

> but Python doesn't.

which Python does have.

Python also has __import__("/path/to/file.py"), which is used by import=20
when the module does not exist.


--=20
Terry Jan Reedy