Best way to add an environment variable in fabric?

Question

I would like to pass a few values from fabric into the remote environment, and I\'m not seeing a great way to do it. The best I\'ve come up with so far is:

Answer 1

As of fabric 1.5 (released), fabric.context_managers.shell_env does what you want.

    with shell_env(FOO1='BAR1', FOO2='BAR2', FOO3='BAR3'):
        local("echo FOO1 is $FOO1")