Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: > > > I *believe* that ``SetEnvironmentVariable`` exists in the underlying > > windows API, but that it isn't wrapped by the win32api extension. > > SetEnvironmentVariable does the same thing as assignment to os.environ. > > The only way to set the environment for another process is to create the > process yourself, and pass in an environment block. > > To modify the system environment, you need to update the registry and > broadcast a window message; see: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/environment_variables.asp > > (that cannot be used to modify the environment for arbitrary processes, > though. it's up to each process to decide how to handle that message, > if it cares about window messages at all). >
I think I can use the information posted in this thread to achieve what I want. Thanks for your help. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
