Date:         Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:08:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
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From:         Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Subject:      access environment variables from within spss
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Hi,

How can I the values of environment variables under Spss for Windows? It's easy enough with Python (see below), but can it be done without it? It would be nice if onecould say: 

FILE HANDLE mydir /NAME='%homedrive%'.
GET FILE =  'mydir/somefile.sav'.


The goal is to make many syntaxes as invulnerable to path name changes as possible. I experimented with HOST and SHOW ENVIRONMENT a bit, but this will become kludgy at best.


begin program python.

# first way

import os, spss
spss.Submit("file handle mydir0 /name = '%s'." % (os.getenv("temp"))) 
# second way (only with temp dir)
import tempfile, spss
spss.Submit("file handle mydir /name = '%s'." % (tempfile.gettempdir()))
end program.

 
Cheers!! 

Albert-Jan
  

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