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mokebe
mokebe

Reputation: 77

Python and environmental variables

Executing following commands in ubuntu terminal I have expected results: 

$export number=3
echo $number ###3
$python
>>>import os
>>>print(os.environ['number']) ###prints 3

while : 

$python -c 'import os;print(os.environ['number'])'

Results in : NameError : name 'number' is not defined.

Why? Is it possible to get env variables with python -c?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 956

Answers (1)

Ulises André Fierro
Ulises André Fierro

Reputation: 602

Make sure you change your single quotes for double quotes (the outer ones, at least) to avoid having that problem

python -c "import os;print(os.environ['number'])" 3

Works just fine because my single quotation marks are inside double quotes.

Edit: The problem with your example is not the fact that you're using single quotes within Python, the problem is that it's your shell that's interpreting those single quotes.

From the bash man page:

A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.

Upvotes: 5

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