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How do I access windows environment variables using Python?

eg. if I have the following: set junk=C:\temp\junk
how do I access 'junk' from python?

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os.environ['junk']

should do it.

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import os
os.system("set")

To view the system variables.
To use one of them you just:

import os
os.system("%variable%")

This works with windows, but nothing else.

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