Michael Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do I force the environmental variables set by one 'popen' or > 'pexpect' to propagate throughout the entire Python session so that > any commands called will see those env variables?
A process's environment must be inherited from its parent, or set by the process itself. Child processes can't affect their parent process's environment. (This is the way it works in Unix, it's not specific to Python.) -- \ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order | `\ will lose both, and deserve neither." -- Thomas Jefferson, in | _o__) a letter to Madison | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
