[oclug] Script

Dave Edwards dle1 at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 2 11:45:02 EDT 2001


On August  2, 2001 06:07 pm, David F. Skoll wrote:
> You don't need to change it back.  Any changes to the environment in
> a shell script affect only that script and its child processes; they
> cannot alter the environment in the parent process.
>
> So just set the variable and run the Python interpreter.  Don't worry
> about setting it back.


Gotcha.  Thanks to you and to Francis, cb, and Dean for the advice.

Dave.
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