How to use export with Python on Linux

Question

I need to make an export like this in Python :

# export MY_DATA=\"my_export\"

I\'ve tried to do :

# -*- python-mode -*-
# -         


        

Answer 1

Kind of a hack because it's not really python doing anything special here, but if you run the export command in the same sub-shell, you will probably get the result you want.

import os

cmd = "export MY_DATA='1234'; echo $MY_DATA" # or whatever command
os.system(cmd)