import subprocess import itertools from more_itertools import consume, always_iterable def extract_environment(env_cmd, initial=None): """ Take a command (either a single command or list of arguments) and return the environment created after running that command. Note that if the command must be a batch file or .cmd file, or the changes to the environment will not be captured. If initial is supplied, it is used as the initial environment passed to the child process. """ # construct the command that will alter the environment env_cmd = subprocess.list2cmdline(always_iterable(env_cmd)) # create a tag so we can tell in the output when the proc is done tag = 'Done running command' # construct a cmd.exe command to do accomplish this cmd = 'cmd.exe /s /c "{env_cmd} && echo "{tag}" && set"'.format(**vars()) # launch the process proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=initial) # parse the output sent to stdout lines = proc.stdout # make sure the lines are strings def make_str(s): return s.decode() lines = map(make_str, lines) # consume whatever output occurs until the tag is reached consume(itertools.takewhile(lambda l: tag not in l, lines)) # construct a dictionary of the pairs result = dict(line.rstrip().split('=', 1) for line in lines) # let the process finish proc.communicate() return result