What is an alternative to execfile in Python 3?

Question

It seems they canceled in Python 3 all the easy ways to quickly load a script by removing `execfile()`. Is there an obvious alternative I'm missing?

Accepted Answer

According to the documentation, instead of

```
execfile("./filename") 
```

Use

```
exec(open("./filename").read())
```

See:

- What’s New In Python 3.0

- `execfile`

- `exec`

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