Set an environment variable

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-10-20, the_crazy88 <python at gentoolinux.demon.nl> wrote:

> os.system("export PYTHONPATH = %s" %("your_pythonpath"))

No, that won't work.  

That will set the environment variable in the shell spawned by
the os.system command.  That shell will then immediately exit,
leaving the caller's environment unchanged.

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