Environment variables.

[Vamsi K Kalapala]

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Hi,

I am learning python and I wanted to write a small script that will set
environment variables.

#!/usr/bin/python

# Program to set the environment.

# Import the sys and os modules.
import sys
import os

# Function to change the environment.
def setenv(var, value):
   os.environ[var] = value

# The driver.
if __name__ == '__main__' :
   setenv(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])

I am running this on Python-2.2, but the script doesn't change the
environment. In Programming Python, it is claimed that newer versions of
Python do change the environment like this. Why is'nt this script
working.

--Vamsi