Rockins Chen wrote: >Hi all, > >I encountered a problem: I have a python script, let's just name it >caller.py, It calls a shell script, which is named callee.sh. In callee.sh, >it need a shell variable $target, which should be supplied by caller.py(cannot >pass by argument). I try to use os.environ to do this, as follows: > >caller.py >------------------ >#/usr/bin/python > >import os > >os.environ["target"] = "localhost.localdomain.org" >os.putenv("target", "localhost.localdomain.org") >os.system("./callee.sh") >------------------- > >callee.sh >------------------- >#!/bin/bash > >echo $target >exit 0 >-------------------- > >But, unluckily, it didn't work. What can I do? > >TIA, > > > > Well, if you have to use os.system, that could be os.system("export target=localhost.localdomain.org; ./callee.sh")
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