AmigaVars

amigavars module for python

INFORMATION

The standard python API for access to the environment variables is very posix
centric and only allows read only access to a copy of the evironment, loaded 
at script start and certainly doesn't provide write access to global amiga 
environment variables. Thus amiga script authors needing to set env vars must 
resort to pulling tricks like

os.system("SETENV foo bar save") 

and the perhaps even more convoluted

f = os.popen("getenv foo noline")

var = f.read()

f.close()

if var[0:6] != "GETENV":
	do stuff with var
to read it back again.

This module addresses this by providing three functions analogous to the
shell commands.

GetEnv(name)

	Returns the variable name or None if it doesn't exists

SetEnv(name,value,save)

	Set the variable name to value and saves to ENVARC: if save is True
UnSetEnv(name,delete)

	Unset the variable name and delete it from ENVARC: if delete is True

INSTALLATION

Copy amigavars.so to PYTHON:lib/site-packages

USAGE

It's a standard module so you can use it any way a standard module might be 
used.

e.g.

import amigavars

amigavars.GetEnv("foo")

or

from amigavars import *

SetEnv("foo","bar")