Set an environment variable

[Erik Max Francis]

Christian wrote:

> Can I write a .py script that calls a .sh script that executes the 
> export command and then calls another .py script (and how would the 
> first .py script look)?

No, the shell script that the Python program would invoke would be a 
different process and so commands executed in it would have no effect on 
the state of another.

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