How do I include a shell variable in my script?

Tobiah toby at tobiah.org
Wed Jul 30 15:42:42 EDT 2008


On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:53:53 -0700, laredotornado wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a Python script on a Solaris 9 machine, invoking the
> Python script from ksh, if that matters.  There is an enviornment
> variable, $JAVA_HOME, that I would like to include in my script,
> replacing "/path/to/java/home'" with the value of $JAVA_HOME.
> 
> java_home='/path/to/java/home'
> 
> How do I do this?  If I need to pass a command line argument, so be
> it, but I figure there is a more direct way to get the value.
> 
> Thanks, - Dave

import os

java_home = os.environ['JAVA_HOME']

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