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Why don my spawnProcess programs see my environment variables?

April 26, 2017Environment Programs variables

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Why don my spawnProcess programs see my environment variables?

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spawnProcess defaults to clearing the environment of child processes as a security feature. You can either provide a dictionary with exactly the name-value pairs you want the child to use, or you can simply pass in os.environ to inherit the complete environment.