Set Windows Environment Variable

[Fuzzyman]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Fuzzyman wrote:
>
> > I *believe* that ``SetEnvironmentVariable`` exists in the underlying
> > windows API, but that it isn't wrapped by the win32api extension.
>
> SetEnvironmentVariable does the same thing as assignment to os.environ.
>
> The only way to set the environment for another process is to create the
> process yourself, and pass in an environment block.
>
> To modify the system environment, you need to update the registry and
> broadcast a window message; see:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/environment_variables.asp
>
> (that cannot be used to modify the environment for arbitrary processes,
> though.  it's up to each process to decide how to handle that message,
> if it cares about window messages at all).
>

I think I can use the information posted in this thread to achieve what
I want. Thanks for your help.

Fuzzyman
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