How Do I Set Environment Variables ?

[Shengquan Liang]

How do i set enviroment variables in a Python 
script that is to be run on an Apache server?

say, i want to set ORACLE_HOME = /opt/app/ora/

I wrote the following code:

    	import os
	os.system("ORACLE_HOME=/opt/app/ora/")
	os.system("export ORACLE_HOME")
	....

I executed the script under my user account but
when i checked my enviroment variables with "env"
there is no ORACLE_ENV added.

how do i straighten it out?
thanks a lot.

Another question is that, when the script is up
on a web server, it's executed on behalf of
'nobody', will the enviroment variables be changed
after running the script?




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