Is it possible to set an environment variable from Python permanently?

Question

Using os module I can get the values of the environment variables. For example:

os.environ[\'HOME\']

However, I cannot set the

Answer 1

I am not sure. You can return the variable and set it that way. To do this print it.

(python program)

...
print foo

(bash)

set -- $(python test.py)
foo=$1