Question

Let’s say I have a file foo.py, and within the file I want to execute a file bar.py. But, bar.py isn’t in the same directory as foo.py, it’s in a subdirectory call baz. Will execfile work? What about os.system?

Answer 1

Just add an empty __init__.py file to signal baz is a module and, from foo.py do:

from baz import bar

Unless, of course, you have a good reason not to make baz into a module (and use execfile).