calling source command within python

[Glenn Hutchings]

Jie <Jie.Bao at gmail.com> writes:
> i'm having trouble executing os.system('source .bashrc') command
> within python, it always says that source not found and stuff. Any
> clue?

There's no 'source' program; it's a shell builtin.  Even if there was, it
almost certainly wouldn't do what you want.  The .bashrc file is supposed
to contain settings applying to the current shell, and os.system() runs in
a subshell, so the settings will only affect that shell.

If you're doing this to set environment variables, try modifying os.environ
instead.

Glenn