[Zope] Environment Variable

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel G. Rusch [mailto:drusch@globalcrossing.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:55 AM
> To: Phil Harris; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Environment Variable
> 
> 
> Hey all, 
> 
> I'm strecthing my area of expertise here, but I had our sys 
> admin set an
> Environment Variable in etc/profile and a different 
> Environment Variable
> in Apache. I don't seem to be able to access either. 
> I've tried <dtml-var "REQUEST['varname']">, but that throws 
> an KeyError.
> Any thoughts.

It looks like there is no generic DTML inteface to env variables, the
REQUEST obj does get some env vars but only those defined in the CGI
spec.

I suspect the easiest solution is to write an external method that
examines your environment.

import os

def getEnvVar(var):
  return os.environ[var]

or something like that.

-Michel