Saving changes to path

Tue Jul 19 14:31:12 EDT 2011

On 07/19/2011 02:24 PM, Chess Club wrote:
> Hello,
>> I used sys.path.append() to add to the path directory, but the changes
> made are not saved when I exit the compiler. Is there a way to save
> it?
>> Thank you.

Since python is running in a child process, it only affects its own 
environment variables. I'm not sure that a process can change its 
parents' environment variables in a platform independent way.
I also tried:
 $ python -c 'import os; os.system("export FOO=1")'
 $ echo $FOO
 $
but it doesn't seem to work.
--
Bill