[Tutor] Unix Environment variables

[Steve Willoughby]

Note, however, that changing environment variables only affects the environment of your script and it's child processes. Once your script exits, the original shell you called it from is NOT changed.

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On 2013/6/23, at 14:35, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Anu Bhagat <abhagat at seti.org> wrote:
>> Hi I am fairly new to python. I will greatly appreciate if some one can tell
>> me how set up environment variables from a python script.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> You can use the 'os' module. This is the document for Python 2 [1].
> That should help you retrieving/setting environment variables.
> 
> [1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.environ
> 
> Best,
> Amit.
> 
>> 
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