> The only canned solution for parsing a bash script is bash. Think > about it the other way around: If you wanted to have a Python variable > made available to a bash script, the obvious thing to do is to invoke > Python. It's the same thing.
I scratched my own itch: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578280-parse-profile/. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list