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Hi I want to append a path in existing path using python script.Can anybody suggest me is it possible.Except it suppose I want to export one more variable "ROOT_DIR" using python.Can anybody help me.
In shell script what we do is

PATH=/usr/local: $PATH
export PATH
ROOT_DIR =/usr1/hello
export ROOT_DIR

How we do this in python.

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Setting a path is OS dependent. In Linux you should be able to use os.system( "export NEWPATH" ) although I haven't tried it. If you want to import a module that is not in your PYTHONPATH then you can use sys.path.append(). Almost every tutorial covers this.

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