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

One line solution:

eval `python -c 'import sysconfig;print("python_include_path={0}".format(sysconfig.get_path("include")))'`
echo $python_include_path  # prints /home//anaconda3/include/python3.6m" in my case

Breakdown:

Python call

python -c 'import sysconfig;print("python_include_path={0}".format(sysconfig.get_path("include")))'

It's launching a python script that

1. imports sysconfig
2. gets the python include path corresponding to this python binary (use "which python" to see which one is being used)
3. prints the script "python_include_path={0}" with {0} being the path from 2

Eval call

eval `python -c 'import sysconfig;print("python_include_path={0}".format(sysconfig.get_path("include")))'`

It's executing in the current bash instance the output from the python script. In my case, its executing:

python_include_path=/home//anaconda3/include/python3.6m

In other words, it's setting the environment variable "python_include_path" with that path for this shell instance.

Inspired by: http://blog.tintoy.io/2017/06/exporting-environment-variables-from-python-to-bash/