Paths...
Ben Hutchings
ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com
Thu Apr 5 21:39:24 EDT 2001
"Vincent A. Primavera" <vincent_a_primavera at netzero.net> writes:
> Hello,
> I am in the process of converting a Unix shell script into
> Python. What can I do to set and export a path equivalent to
> PATH=:/usr/bin; export PATH?
That PATH setting doesn't seem to make sense because it begins
with a separator, but anyway the equivalent would be:
import os
os.environ['PATH'] = ':/usr/bin'
Python exports all environmental variables when starting a new
process, as long as your C library has a putenv() function. (If it
doesn't, then you will need to pass the new environment explicitly to
the function that creates the new process.)
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