On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:13:32 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005-10-21, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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." > > The only think you can export an environment variable to is a > child process Well, you know that, and I know that too. From my experience, many people don't... > so I thought it obvious that was what he was > doing with the "export" command example. Well, when I first read the OP's message, I thought it was obvious he wanted to export the variable to the parent shell. Re-reading it, it was actually not so obvious, so my apologies for not having included an example using os.environment... -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17;8(%,5.Z65\'*9--56l7+-'])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
