Question

I am running visual studio, and to run the program I usually just hit ctrl+F5.
Now I am trying to write a python script to run this program with several different configurations.

So far I have something like

cmd = "mycmd.exe arg1 arg2"
os.system(cmd)

but this fails with a message ERROR: environment variable TZ not set correctly.
I checked in visual studio and in the property windows, under config in the debuggin tab there is a setting for the TZ variable,

Enviroment   TZ=XXX

How can I tell python to use the same setting when running the program?
Is os.system the best solution to run this or are there better alternatives?

Thanks!

Answer 1

import os
os.environ['FOO'] = 'bar'

Python will call the underlaying os.putenv() method under the hood automatically

http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.putenv