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diff --git a/Lib/user.py b/Lib/user.py
index e550e52..99efd2d 100644
--- a/Lib/user.py
+++ b/Lib/user.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ that wishes to use the mechanism must execute the statement
import user
The user module looks for a file .pythonrc.py in the user's home
-directory and if it can be opened, execfile()s it in its own global
+directory and if it can be opened and read, exec()s it in its own global
namespace. Errors during this phase are not caught; that's up to the
program that imports the user module, if it wishes.
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ except IOError:
pass
else:
f.close()
- execfile(pythonrc)
+ exec(open(pythonrc).read())