Question

I want a small python script to set the HUDSON_HOME environment variable.

When using the shell, I can easily do this using >>set HUDSON_HOME=http://localhost:8080

But how can I do the same directly through python?? I don’t want to do it by passing the command line to os.system().. can os.environ() be of any help??

I had in my script:
import os
os.environ(‘HUDSON_HOME’)=’http://localhost:8080‘

but it’s probably setting it for the subprocss and not the parent shell..any way around this??

Answer 1

os.environ is a dictionary represenation of the environment. You’d use it like this:

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['HUDSON_HOME'] = 'http://localhost:8080'

However, it cannot modify the environment of the parent process AFAIK.