On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear team, > > in some Sage/Cython program i am also using some executables. More > precisely, it is a Gap sub-process that needs to run these > executables. > > Now i wonder whether it is possible to change my PATH from within a > Sage session. > > I know that i can get the PATH with > sage: os.environ['PATH'] > and so i tried to change os.environ. But it didn't help, apparently > Sage did not tell the operating system where it should look for the > executables that the Gap process needs. > > What can i do? >
I haven't tried this but I would imagine you could run a bash script which sets the environment variables like this: sage: !/path/to/myscript Any system command can be run like this: sage: !date Mon Sep 8 08:09:12 EDT 2008 > Yours > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
