python脚本第一行环境变量设置,通过python脚本设置外壳环境变量

I have some instrument which requires environment variable which I want to set automatically from python code. So I tried several ways to make it happen, but none of them were successful.

Here are some examples:

I insert following code in my python script

import os

os.system("export ENV_VAR=/some_path")

I created bash script(env.sh) and run it from python:

#!/bin/bash

export ENV_VAR=some_path

#call it from python

os.system("source env.sh")

I also tried os.putenv() and os.environ["ENV_VAR"] = "some_path"

Is it possible to set(export) environment variable using python, i.e

without directly exporting it to shell?

解决方案

As long as you start the "instrument" (a script I suppose) from the very same process it should work:

In [1]: os.putenv("VARIABLE", "123")

In [2]: os.system("echo $VARIABLE")

123

You can't change an environment variable of a different process or a parent process.