Setting Environment Variables

From: Greg Lindstrom (greg.lindstrom_at_novasyshealth.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

To: <python-list@python.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:07:17 -0500

Hello-

I am running python 2.3. on an HP-9000 box running Unix and have a POSIX
script that sets up my production environment. I would like to run the
script from inside a python routine and pick up the environment variables
but am having trouble getting it done. Suppose the script is called
setprod. How can I call this from inside a python script then pick up the
env's later in my program? I've tried os.system ('setprod') and
os.system('. setprod'), but neither seemed to work.

Thanks for your help,
--greg

Greg Lindstrom (501) 975-4859
NovaSys Health greg.lindstrom@novasyshealth.com

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