[Tutor] Setting PYTHONPATH and other env vars dynamically

[Kent Johnson]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Jramak<jramak345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> We have developed three custom applications in Python. Each one of
> these applications needs a different PYTHONPATH, in addition to
> different environment variables to work. Instead of manually setting
> the environment variables for each application, what would be the best
> way to set PYTHONPATH and other environment variables for a specific
> application? We only run one application at a time, not all of them.
> We are running Python 2.5.2 and Python 2.4.1 on Win2K. Is a bash
> script that sets the environment variables on the application start-up
>  way to go?

You can modify the search path in each program my adding to sys.path.

Kent