How to Call Python Files?
Learn about the different ways of calling Python files.
We'll cover the following...
There are two ways to call Python files:
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We can call the file directly (Python [filename]), which is what we’ve been doing.
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We can call the file using an external library.
We haven’t covered calling the file using an external library yet. If we wanted to use the function count_words in another file, we would do this:
from word_count import count_words
This will take the function count_words and make it available in the new file. We can also do the following:
from word_count import *
This will import all functions and variables, ...