Larry Bates wrote: > Greg Donald wrote: >> Anyone know what's up with environment variables when using ipython? [...]
> In Cpython you get this with: > > import os > os.environ['EDITOR'] Yup, same in ipython :) Just to clarify, env is just a convenience function in ipython that simply does this: In [4]: env?? Type: Magic function Base Class: <type 'instancemethod'> String Form: <bound method InteractiveShell.magic_env of <IPython.iplib.InteractiveShell object at 0x402046ec>> Namespace: IPython internal File: /home/fperez/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/IPython/Magic.py Definition: env(self, parameter_s='') Source: def magic_env(self, parameter_s=''): """List environment variables.""" return os.environ.data Cheers, f -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list