Re: Adding environment variables to bash.

[Fredrik Lundh]

aditya shukla wrote:

Can i add any environment variable to bash from my python script? so
that when i use env command then i can see that environment variable.

not if you run the script from the shell.

when a process starts, it gets a *copy* of the parent's environment. it
can modify that copy, but it cannot modify the variables in the parent.

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