Setting environment variables.

[Per Kistler]

Hi Thomas

I don't know UserDict yet, but it seems to work like that:

#!/per/bin/python
# Change env and mutate back to a shell

import os

shell   = "/usr/bin/bash"
os.environ["MYVAR"] = "MYVALUE"
env = {}
for k,v in os.environ.items(): env[k] = v
os.execle( shell, "-", env )   

Then I end up in a shell with the new environment:-)

Thanks a lot (, although it was not my original question)!
-Per.     

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> >>> x = UserDict.UserDict(os.environ)
> >>> x["spam"] = "eggs"
> 
> Just so you know i aint cheating this time ;-)
> 
> >>> os.environ["spam"]
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/UserDict.py", line 14, in __getitem__
>     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
> KeyError: spam
> 
> >>> os.execle("/bin/tcsh", "-", x)
> centurion:~/python > echo $spam
> eggs
> 
> Yes, you could set os.environ before an os.exec*(), but passing a modified
> env is nicer.
> 
> --
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>
> 
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