On May 17, 2006, at 2:33, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>>>>> Daniel Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (DL) wrote: > >> DL> Question for the group: if I modify the environment through >> os.environ >> DL> ['PATH'], will Finder applications pick that up or is it just >> for the >> DL> shell? Yes I need to RTFM and try it, but this is a stream-of- >> DL> consciousness email over lunch and I have a full plate for this >> DL> afternoon. Besides, what's a community for anyway? ;-) > > Changes to os.environ only apply to the process in which it will be > executed and to its children. This applies to all changes to the > environment variables, no matter how they are accomplished. So to > set the > environment for the Finder can only be done before (or while) > launching the > Finder.
Piet thanks, but I knew that about environment UNIX inheritance my questions is bit more arcane and I'll have to research it myself because I am ignorant in this area (I suppsoe the documentation for Launch Services or something has the answer right up front): If I launch an app from the shell with the 'open' command , not by double-clicking in the FInder, which environment is used: the Finder's or the Shells or is there some combination of the two with some mapping and precedence scheme? That's what I meant to ask ;-) (the Real daniel, not 'just' a Dutch impostor ;-) Daniel _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
