Setting UNIX environment with a Python script

[Grant Edwards]

In article <pan.2002.03.12.11.14.20.48643.1649 at zip.com.au>, Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> What you need to do instead is have your python program print on stdout
> the name of the ora_env file to source. Then you invoke your python
> script from your shell login script like this (bourne style shell
> assumed):
> 
> eval "source ora_env.`get_ora_name`"

Another common method is to have your Python program write the
shell commands to stdout, then execute them with something like

eval `myPythonProgram`

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