Note, however, that changing environment variables only affects the environment of your script and it's child processes. Once your script exits, the original shell you called it from is NOT changed.
Sent from my iPad On 2013/6/23, at 14:35, Amit Saha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Anu Bhagat <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi I am fairly new to python. I will greatly appreciate if some one can tell >> me how set up environment variables from a python script. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > You can use the 'os' module. This is the document for Python 2 [1]. > That should help you retrieving/setting environment variables. > > [1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.environ > > Best, > Amit. > >> >> Anu >> -- >> Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'. Audrey Hepburn >> >> Anu Bhagat >> SETI Institute >> 189 North Bernardo Street >> Mountain View, CA 94043-5203 >> Phone : 650.960.4592 >> Fax : 650.960.5830 >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > -- > http://echorand.me > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
