Is it possible to set an environment variable from Python permanently?

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If what you want is to make your environment variables persist accross sessions, you could

For unix

do what we do when in bash shell. Append you environment variables inside the ~/.bashrc.

import os
with open(os.path.expanduser("~/.bashrc"), "a") as outfile:
    # 'a' stands for "append"  
    outfile.write("export MYVAR=MYVALUE")

or for Windows:

setx /M MYVAR "MYVALUE"

in a *.bat that is in Startup in Program Files

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