Setting environment for current shell

[Grant Edwards]

In article <932f4d$n0r$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, bragib at my-deja.com wrote:

>How do you set an environment for the shell you are running python in.
>os.system() spawns its own shell.  I would like to gain access to the
>parent shell.

You can't.   You can only modify the current environment not
your parent process's.

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