Set an environment variable
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Fri Oct 21 10:34:09 EDT 2005
On 2005-10-21, Christian <christian at spam.not> wrote:
>>
>> The closest thing you can do is that:
>>
>> -myScript.py--------------------------------------
>> print 'export MY_VARIABLE=value'
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> -myScript.sh--------------------------------------
>> python myScript.py > /tmp/chgvars.sh
>> . /tmp/chgvars.sh
>> --------------------------------------------------
Bullshit. Are people being intentionally misleading??
> 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)?
Good grief, that's ugly. Just use os.putenv().
> That would be much more what is my basic problem.
And even Google knows the correct answer
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=python+set+environment+variable
Follow the first hit.
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