Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-10-24, Eric Brunel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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... > > True. Using Unix for 20+ years probably warps one's perception > of what's obvious and what isn't.
This specific issue is identical in Windows, isn't it? I do not know any OS which does have the concept of "environment variable" yet lets such variables be ``exported'' to anything but a child process. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
