Many thanks to some very bright and helpful gentlemen.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:24 AM Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 6/27/19 11:24 PM, Mayo Adams wrote:
> > I have for some time been flummoxed as to the significance of setting
> > environment variables, for example in order to run a Flask applicatio
On 6/27/19 11:24 PM, Mayo Adams wrote:
> I have for some time been flummoxed as to the significance of setting
> environment variables, for example in order to run a Flask application.
> What are these environment variables, exactly, and why is it necessary to
> set them? "Googling" here simply lea
On 28Jun2019 09:34, Alan Gauld wrote:
Environment variable have fallen out of favour for user settings
and config files are now preferred. But some things are a bit
easier via en environment variable - especially where you spawn
new sub-processes and don't want the sub-process to have
to re-read
On 28/06/2019 06:24, Mayo Adams wrote:
> What are these environment variables, exactly, and why is it necessary to
> set them?
When you run a program under an operating system the OS sets up an
"environment" (or context) for the program to run in. (This
includes the OS shell that the user intera
