> > doesn't exactly work for Python scripts, though: > True, but you can use it in the following (admittedly messy) way:
jl> cat setenv.sh /usr/bin/env python $@ . ./settmp rm settmp jl> cat env.py #!/usr/bin/python command = "export TEST='hello'\n" open('settmp', 'w').write(command) jl> . setenv.sh env.py && env | grep TEST TEST=hello Note this won't set the environment variable until the end of the script, so if it's used in the script as well then it'll also need to be set with, for example, os.environ["TEST"] = "hello" John.
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