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How to set environment variables in Python?

Asked 2011-05-11T22:25:11.297
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I need to set some environment variables in the Python script and I want all the other scripts that are called from Python to see the environment variables' set.

If I do,

os.environ["DEBUSSY"] = 1

it complains saying that 1 has to be a string.

I also want to know how to read the environment variables in Python (in the latter part of the script) once I set it.

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if i do os.environ["DEBUSSY"] = 1, it complains saying that 1 has to be string.

Then do

os.environ["DEBUSSY"] = "1"

I also want to know how to read the environment variables in python(in the later part of the script) once i set it.

Just use os.environ["DEBUSSY"], as in

some_value = os.environ["DEBUSSY"]
answered 2011-05-11T22:28:30.777

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