Read Bash variables into a Python script

Question

I am running a bash script (test.sh) and it loads in environment variables (from env.sh). That works fine, but I am trying to see python can just load in the variables already in the bash script.

Yes I know it would probably be easier to just pass in the specific variables I need as arguments, but I was curious if it was possible to get the bash variables.

test.sh

#!/bin/bash source env.sh  echo $test1  python pythontest.py 

env.sh

#!/bin/bash  test1="hello" 

pythontest.py

? print test1 (that is what I want) 

Answer 1

You need to export the variables in bash, or they will be local to bash:

export test1 

Then, in python

import os print os.environ["test1"]