Error when running script with Spyder and Python(x,y)?

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I've just recently installed Python(x,y) 2.7.5.1 on my computer with no other Python distributions installed in parallel and I have a problem with the Spyder IDE.

Namely when I create a script even a simple:

print "Hello World"

and I try to run it via the usual Runfile/F5 I get the following error:

name 'runfile' is not defined

As the button seems to be trying to use a runfile() function to run the scripts I create in the IDE.

If I try to run the same scripts by hand in Spyder's console with execfile() it works.

My question is how do I get the standard Run button and implicitly runfile() to work or alternatively to redirect the Run button to use execfile() ?

George Bora · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-04 09:42:22Z

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The problem seems to go away if from the run configuration I choose the option that each script be executed in it's own new individual console.

answered Nov 4, 2013 at 9:42

George Bora

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Demis Over a year ago

This also solved my problem for running PythonXY(v2.7.10.0)/Spyder scripts on WinXP, when running the Script in the Current interpreter would just hang after runfile(), requiring me to Force-End the python.exe process.

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