edpath 0.1.0

Description

Running edpath displays entries from the PATH (or other named environment variable), with ‘;’ separators replaced by newlines, so that each entry is on its own line. Running with -e displays this in $EDITOR, and saved changes are written back to the registry, where they will be picked up by all new processes.

Run with -h for description and usage.

Requirements

MS Windows only. Only tested on Windows XP.

Requires Python 2.7.

Requires that pywin32 is installed, from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/

Status and Known Problems

Feature complete. No known issues.

If you have comments or it doesn’t work for you or you find bugs, I’d love to hear about it. -tartley@tartley.com

Todo

• invert the sense of options.machine to get rid of all those nots

• support more versions of Python

• produce a standalone py2exe version

• store backups of old PATH values in case user trashes their PATH?

• make Linux-friendly. Presumably we can only display the output there, not persist it.

Thanks

Thanks to Tim Golden for his marvellous descriptions and code snippets showing how to read & modify environment variables in the Windows registry.

Changes

0.1.0 Initial release. Feature complete.