Python how to execute code from a txt file

Question

I want to keep a piece of code in a txt file and execute it from my Python script.

For example in the txt file there is

print(\"ok\")

I

Answer 1

You are looking for eval function

eval is a function that takes arbitrary python code represented as a string and execute it at run time.

Example

>>> x = 1
>>> y = eval('x+1')
>>> print(y)
2

It works in both Python 2.x and 3.x

Check the documentation : https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/functions.html#eval