Load environment variables of bashrc into python

Question

I'm trying to set the environment variable of my .bashrc using Spyder; in other words I'm looking for a python command that reads my .bashrc. Any idea?

Answer 1

.bashrc should automatically be loaded into the environ on login

import os

print os.environ

if you wanted to create a dictionary of values from a bash source file you could in theory do something like

output = subprocess.check_output("source /path/to/.bashrc;env")
env = dict(line.split("=") for line in output.splitlines() if "=" in line))
print env