Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My point: the OP wanted to know how to export an environment > variable to a child process. Either of the lines of code above > will do that, so what's with all the shellular shenanigans?
Actually, the OP didn't say he wanted to export a variable to a child process. He said he wanted to know how to do the equivalent of "export SYMBOL=value", which got intreprted as "setting a variable in the parent shell." <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list