How to get and set environment variables in Python

Read Environment Variables in Python:

The os module will require to import to read the environment variables. The os.environ object is used in Python to access the environment variable. The coder can set and get the value of any environment variable by using this object.

os.environ is dic.

Print environment variables:

Create a python file with the following script to read and print all variables and the specific environment variable. The ‘for’ loop has used in the script to read and print all existing environment variable names and values. Next, the value of the ‘HOME’ variable has been printed：

# Import os module
import os

# Iterate loop to read and print all environment variables
print("The keys and values of all environment variables:")
for key in os.environ:
    print(key, '=>', os.environ[key])

# Print the value of the particular environment variable
print("The value of HOME is: ", os.environ['HOME'])

修改PATH环境变量：

os.environ['PATH'] = os.environ['PATH'] + ":" + "/home/xx"