Embedding setenv

[Emile van Sebille]

"O'Rourke Clodagh-corour01" <corour01 at motorola.com> wrote in
message
news:mailman.982851124.2766.python-list at python.org...
>
> >>I've tried os.system("setenv  VARIABLE value")
> >>But I get:  sh: setenv: not found
>
>
> >n general, you can't do this.  setenv (in csh) is a
builtin, and doesn't
> >xist in /bin/sh or /bin/bash
> >t all.  Are you trying to set variables in your parent
processes'
> >nvironment?  Can't do that in
> >nix, period.  If you are trying to set your own
environment, including
> >ontrolling the environment
> >o future child processes, use os.environ, which is a
mapping
> >dictionary-like object):
>
>     import os
>     os.environ['VARIABLE'] = 'value'
>

this works for me...


>
> I'm trying to set environment variables in a GSM network
environment I tried
>
> os.environ['VARIABLE'] = 'value'
>
> And I got.....
>
> SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
>

gotta be something else going on...


> I'm working on putting a front end on the
Network-Controller Environment variables reading data
to/from Informix and setting the environment.
>
> If I can't do this directly from the python back end of
the application, I might have to write the variables/values
to another script and keep the setenv stuff separate....
>
> Thanks,
> Clodagh.
>


I'm not sure it'll do what you want it to do, but it
certainly does what you say you're doing...


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Emile van Sebille
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