Setting environment environment variables with a Python script

Question

OS: Mac OSX 10.14 Python 2.7

I have a python script which looks like below:

#! /usr/bin/python

import os

os.system('./binaryfileproducesenv_variables > ./env_variables_file')
os.system('chmod 744 ./env_variables_file')
os.system('./env_variables_file')

os.system('python anotherpythonscript.py')

The env_variables_file looks like this:

passwordA='abcd';
passwordB='1234';
export passwordA passwordB

The anotherpythonscript.py will only work properly if the environment variables above are set properly. When i run it via the main python script it does not define the variables. Although, if i run the ./env_variables_file directly from the command line it will set the environment variables. Any suggestions how to run this through the Python script and have it set the environment variables.

Answer 1

See comment above:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
./binaryfileproducesenv_variables > ./env_variables_file
. ./env_variables_file
python anotherpythonscript.py