[Pythonmac-SIG] Environment variable issues running py2app application

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 25 Apr, 2013, at 16:29, Paul Wiseman <poalman at gmail.com> wrote:
> To reset the path, would I just update the PATH entry in the os.environ dict? Presumably I could just add /usr/bin:/usr/sbin to the start of PATH when the app starts up, then I should be ok?

Yes, "os.environ['PATH'] = '/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:' + os.environ['PATH']" would work, and would ensure that system binaries are prefered over binaries in other locations regardless of the environment of the user.

Ronald