On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 9:51:02 AM UTC+12, Paul Smith wrote: > ... here's the problem: because LD_LIBRARY_PATH is in > Python's environment it is also passed down to programs invoked by > Python. That means if I (for example) invoke subprocess.call(['ssh', > ...]) then it fails because the system ssh is looking for the system > libcrypto.so, and when it finds the Python libcrypto.so instead > (because of LD_LIBRARY_PATH) it fails.
That’s easy enough to fix: you can pass a custom environment down to subprocesses by using the “env” argument to the various subprocess calls <https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html>. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
