Re: Modify environment variable for subprocess

From	Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Modify environment variable for subprocess
Date	2015-09-24 03:12 +0300
References	<6f8c6233-9777-488f-9026-fec729fef6d1@googlegroups.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.112.1443053508.28679.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> writes:

> I need to modify the LIBPATH environment variable when running a
> process via subprocess, but otherwise retain the existing environment.
>
> Whats the best way to do that?

Pass env=dict(os.environ, LIBPATH=value) parameter:

  import os
  import subprocess 
  
  subprocess.check_call('echo $LIBPATH', shell=True,
                        env=dict(os.environ, LIBPATH='/some/path'))

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Modify environment variable for subprocess loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 02:51 -0700
  Re: Modify environment variable for subprocess Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-09-23 20:00 +1000
  Re: Modify environment variable for subprocess Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-23 12:37 +0200
  Re: Modify environment variable for subprocess Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-24 03:12 +0300

csiph-web