Python: Exporting environment variables in subprocess.Popen(..)

Question

I am having an issue with setting an environment variable on a call to subprocess.Popen. The environment variable does not seem to be getting set. Any suggestio

Answer 1

For Python 3.5 and newer, you can use unpacking generalizations, eg:

env = {
    **os.environ,
    "TEST_VARIABLE": str(1234),
}
subprocess.Popen('/usr/bin/mybinary', env=env).wait()