I have had difficulties to run any python code when using python-execute-file (SPC m c c in spacemacs), until I finally found out that I have to use python-shell-send-buffer (SPC m s b in Spacemacs) to run code.
I wonder what is the purpose of python-execute-file then?
FWIW, in vanilla emacs, I cannot find python-execute-file, but looks like it is similar to python-shell-send-file in stock emacs.
python-shell-send-file (bound by default to C-c C-l) prompts the user to select the file they want to send to the python-shell-interpreter (default value is "python").. it need not be the current file or one of the open Python files.python-shell-send-buffer (bound by default to C-c C-c) sends the current buffer to the python-shell-interpreter without asking any questions.So if you want to quickly want to evaluate the script you are currently working on, you would use python-shell-send-buffer. But if you want to evaluation some other file (already open or not), you would use python-shell-send-file (or may be python-execute-file).
spacemacs/python-execute-file is an interactive Lisp function. [...] Execute a python script in a shell.
python-shell-send-region which is bound to C-c C-r by default.
python-execute-filefunction in python mode, but Spacemacs seems to have a function with a similar name:spacemacs/python-execute-file.