On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Wildman via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > I'm afraid that won't work. The user environment is different > than root. A different set of variables. However you have > given me a possible workaround. You can't create a variable > for root unless you are root so that approach is out. But > it might be possible to create the variable for the user > and access it as root. I don't have a lot of experience > using os.environ, but I am going to at it closer.
When you start a subprocess, it inherits your environment. So you can create an environment variable for yourself, then start the other process. But read Cameron's cautionary notes and basically just don't do this. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
