change windows system path from cygwin python?

[Harlin Seritt]

gry at ll.mit.edu wrote:

> [Windows XP Pro, cygwin python 2.4, *nix hacker, windows newbie]
> 
> I want to write some kind of install script for my python app that
> will add c:\cygwin\usr\bin to the system path.  I don't want
> to walk around to 50 PC's and twiddle through the GUI to:
> 
> My Computer --> Control Panel --> System --> Advanced --> Environment
> 
> 
> How can a python, or even a .bat script modify the system PATH?
> It doesn't appear to be in the registry.

If you're just wanting to add a path to the system environments you can do:

"set path=c:\path\to\whatever" # As a line in a Batch file 


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Harlin Seritt