Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/18/2013 12:49 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hi group, I've tracked down a bug in my application to a rather strange phaenomenon: os.putenv() doesn't seem to have any effect on my platform (x86-64 Gentoo Linux, Python 3.2.3): os.getenv("PATH") '/usr/joebin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ga

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Does anybody know why this would happen or what I could be doing wrong? os.putenv will only affect the environment in subprocesses. Consider this session fragment: % python Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 17 2012, 03:11:33) [GCC 4.4.6 [TWW]] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 18.06.2013 20:12, Johannes Bauer wrote: > I am extremely certain that I found that passage, but can't find it > right now anymore (probably staring right at it and can't find it still) :-/ Obviously, yes: Note On some platforms, including FreeBSD and Mac OS X, setting environ may cause memory

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 18.06.2013 20:09, Dave Angel wrote: > In other words, you shouldn't use putenv(), but instead modify os.environ. Huh... this is surprising to me. Because I actually looked it up in the manual and vaguely remember that there stood that os.environ is just a copy of the environment variables at i

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/18/2013 12:49 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hi group, I've tracked down a bug in my application to a rather strange phaenomenon: os.putenv() doesn't seem to have any effect on my platform (x86-64 Gentoo Linux, Python 3.2.3): os.getenv("PATH") '/usr/joebin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/g

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread inq1ltd
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 06:49:31 PM Johannes Bauer wrote: > Hi group, > > I've tracked down a bug in my application to a rather strange > phaenomenon: os.putenv() doesn't seem to have any effect on my platform > > (x86-64 Gentoo Linux, Python 3.2.3): > >>> os.getenv("PATH") > > '/usr/joebin:/u

Re: os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Johannes Bauer
u really couldn't have missed the point more if you tried. I'm not working with Bash, but with Python. os.putenv() has no effect in my case (not just with the PATH environment variable). Regards, Johannes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

os.putenv() has no effect

2013-06-18 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hi group, I've tracked down a bug in my application to a rather strange phaenomenon: os.putenv() doesn't seem to have any effect on my platform (x86-64 Gentoo Linux, Python 3.2.3): >>> os.getenv("PATH") '/usr/joebin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/bin' >>> os.putenv(