programmatically manipulation environment variables of the calling shell

[Gerard Flanagan]

On Mar 12, 11:33 am, "Maxim Veksler" <hq4e... at gmail.com> 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).
>

The Popen class from the subprocess module takes an optional 'env'
parameter, which defines environment variables for the child process
created by Popen, if that helps.

Gerard