programmatically manipulation environment variables of the calling shell

[Maxim Veksler]

On 3/12/07, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgren at comhem.se> wrote:
>
> On 12 mar 2007, at 11.33, Maxim Veksler wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a python script that would allow me to manipulate
> > shell variables of the calling shell. I'm trying to write some logic
> > that would know to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the users environment.
> >
> > In bash this is done with "export", can I do this with python? (If at
> > all possible because python is actually a sub process of bash).
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Maxim.
>         This is not possible to do directly.
>         There is however a possibility to solve this problem under special
> circumstances.
>         1. Your python (/perl/shell/etc) script must write the wanted
> environment
> variables to standard out, as key-value pairs with a suitable separator.
>         2. The invoking shell must agree with your script as to what
> separator is used.
>         3. In the calling shell do myshellvars=`your_python_script`;
>         4. Now the calling shell can parse the variable myshellvars to set
> up the environment.

Yes, thats exactly what I was set to do.

<<< bash
for export_val in $(python env_variables_maxim.py); do export $export_val; done
>>>

<<< python (env_variables_maxim.py)
print 'FOO=123 BAR=/home/src:$BAR PATH=/nfs/bin'
>>>

Thank you.

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> Tommy Nordgren
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Maxim Veksler

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