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On 17 Jun 2014 03:42, "Chris Barker" <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
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\> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> wrote:
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\>> > > 1\. It hampers interactive mode - instead of short and easy to type
\>> > > execfile("file.py") one needs to use exec(open("file.py").read()).
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\>> > If the amount of typing is the problem, that's easy to solve:
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\>> > # do this once
\>> > def execfile(name):
\>> > exec(open("file.py").read())
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\> FWIW, when I started using python (15?) years ago -- the first thing I looked for was a way to "just run a file", at the interactive prompt, like I had in MATLAB. I found and used execfile().

Yes, if people are looking for a MATLAB replacement, they want IPython rather than the default REPL.

The default one is deliberately minimal, IPython is designed to be a comprehensive numeric and scientific workspace.

Cheers,
Nick.