Brano Zarnovican wrote: > I have a python script represented by a string. > I need to execute it in a context. 'exec' does > the job, but doesn't display the filename in > tracebacks. 'execfile' is displaying the filename > but it can only exec a script in a filesystem. > > I have tried: > - to give exec a filename, like: > > exec script_content in dict({'__file__':'bla.py'}) > > => didn't work (neighter with __name__)
compile the script first, and execute the resulting code object: >>> exec compile("code", "filename", "exec") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "filename", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'code' is not defined </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list