Re: [Fab-user] Making env changes persistent to the current session?

[Jorge Vargas]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Lars van der bijl
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> as fabric is running as a sub process from the shell you initiated it
>> from I don't think you can influence it's parent.
>> I did sped some time looking this up for pyhton and couldn't find a
>> way to do it.
>> but maybe there are some clever clogs here who know how.
>
> Unfortunately, to my knowledge you're correct -- subprocesses spawned
> from a shell are unable to influence the invoking session. This is the
> same for anything -- Python, a bash script, etc.
>
> The only good way I've ever found to "do something useful and update
> the current shell env" is to *source* shell scripts via the shell's
> "source" function, which cannot be done in Python (the whole point is
> for the shell to interpret a shell script "inline", and last I
> checked, Bash or Zsh could not interpret Python natively.)
>
That is what I was afraid of. So I guess that tiny .sh script is
staying in the repo.