Question about envvars

[rceci at my-deja.com]

Another thought,

If I specify a -S, can I compensate by specifically saying at the
appropriate time, "import site" ?

Rob

In article <375C3891.1D11E1A4 at ix.netcom.com>,
  "Stephen J. Turner" <sjturner at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> > Boy I was excited to get a reasonable explaination so quickly, but
alas,
> > it still does not work.  Here is my test script:
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/python
> >
> > import MDIreg
> >
> > reg = MDIreg.FileRegistry(1,1)
> > reg.exportEnvVars()
> >
> > import os
> > print "child has it : "
> > os.system("env | grep MDI_REG_VERSION")
> > print "but do I have it? :"
> > print os.environ['MDI_REG_VERSION']
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I am interested in this "MDI_REG_VERSION" envvar which gets exported
by
> > my library.  Here is the output:
> >
> > child has it :
> > MDI_REG_VERSION=10.0
> > but do I have it? :
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "regtest.py", line 12, in ?
> >     print os.environ['MDI_REG_VERSION']
> >   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/UserDict.py", line 12, in
__getitem__
> >     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
> > KeyError: MDI_REG_VERSION
>
> Oops!  I just realized that the site module, which is imported by
> default when the Python interpreter starts, imports the os module --
so
> by the time your script begins to execute, it's already too late.
Just
> for grins, you could try disabling the site module by adding the '-S'
> option to the Python command line, as in:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/python -S
>
> I'm not advocating this approach, since it's generally a good idea to
> import the site module.  I'd just like to know if it works for you.
>
> > Any other ideas?  Any way to tell the os/posix module to "refresh"?
>
> None that I can see from looking in Modules/posixmodule.c.  Sorry.
>
> > By the way, thanks for the library implementation suggestion, but I
must
> > keep it the way it is, because other c, and c++ (at the class level)
> > programs access this library.
>
> OK, how 'bout this?  Suppose you added a virtual "putenv" method to
your
> FileRegistry C++ class whose default implementation was to call the
> global putenv function.  Then in your Python C extension, you could
> subclass FileRegistry and override the putenv method with one that
> modifies os.environ as described in the prior post.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
>
> --
> Stephen J. Turner <sjturner at ix.netcom.com>
>


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