What is an alternative to execfile in Python 3?

Question

It seems they canceled in Python 3 all the easy way to quickly load a script by removing execfile()

Is there an obvious alternative I\'m missing?

Answer 1

Here's what I had (file is already assigned to the path to the file with the source code in both examples):

execfile(file)

Here's what I replaced it with:

exec(compile(open(file).read(), file, 'exec'))

My favorite part: the second version works just fine in both Python 2 and 3, meaning it's not necessary to add in version dependent logic.