Running "source" from python

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Hello,

I have a file a.txt with lines of commands I want to run, say:

echo 1
echo 2
echo 3

If I was on csh (unix), I would have done source a.txt and it would run. From python I want to run os.execl with it, however I get:

>>> os.execl("source", "a.txt")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 322, in execl
    execv(file, args)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

How to do it?

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