On 20 Oct 2005 01:58:44 -0700, the_crazy88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just use
> os.system("export PYTHONPATH = %s" %("your_pythonpath"))
... except it won't work: os.system will execute the command in a new process,
so the environment variable change will only be visible in *this* process.
Since you don't do anything else, the environment variable change will never be
seen by anyone.
As for the OP's question, the short answer is "you can't": the Python
interpreter will always be executed in a different process than the calling
shell, and environment variable changes *never* impact the calling process on
Unix.
The closest thing you can do is that:
-myScript.py--------------------------------------
print 'export MY_VARIABLE=value'
--------------------------------------------------
-myScript.sh--------------------------------------
python myScript.py > /tmp/chgvars.sh
. /tmp/chgvars.sh
--------------------------------------------------
This is quite ugly: you write the shell commands changing the environment
variables to a file, then "source" this file in the calling shell. But this is
probably the best way to do what you want.
HTH
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