How to set environment variables in Python?

Question

I need to set some environment variables in the Python script and I want all the other scripts that are called from Python to see the environment variables\' set.

If

Answer 1

to Set Variable:

item Assignment method using key:

import os    
os.environ['DEBUSSY'] = '1'  #Environ Variable must be string not Int

to get or to check whether its existed or not,

since os.environ is an instance you can try object way.

Method 1:

os.environ.get('DEBUSSY') # this is error free method if not will return None by default

will get '1' as return value

Method 2:

os.environ['DEBUSSY'] # will throw an key error if not found!

Method 3:

'DEBUSSY' in os.environ  # will return Boolean True/False

Method 4:

os.environ.has_key('DEBUSSY') #last 2 methods are Boolean Return so can use for conditional statements