How to pass a list as an environment variable?

Question

I use a list as part of a Python program, and wanted to convert that to an environment variable.

So, it\'s like this:

list1 = [\'a.1\',\'b.2\',\'c.3\']
         


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you'd do it through the environment variables, but you can do this:

export LIST_ITEMS ="a.1 b.2 c.3"

And in Python:

list1 = [i.split(".") for i in os.environ.get("LIST_ITEMS").split(" ")] 

for k, v in list1:
    print(k, v)