On Aug 6, 11:58 am, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > >>>>> Kosta <kosta.koe...@gmail.com> (K) wrote: > >K> My interpretation of the above (and your email) is that using Popen > >K> allows one to pass the Python environment to a child processs (in my > >K> case, setenv.bat). I need the reverse, to propagate from the child > >K> to the parent. > > I don't think there is any modern OS that allows that. Unless you use > your own protocol of course, like letting the child write the > environment to its stdout and reading and interpreting it in the parent. > -- > Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> > URL:http://pietvanoostrum.com[PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] > Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org
Piet, Yes you are correct. Thinking more about parent/child processes and what I am doing: opening a cmd window (its own process), starting up Python (a child process), and then attempting to run setenv.bat (a child process to Python), and yes I'm out of luck. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
