Get environment variable for current user and for all users in Python

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Is there way to determine which environment variables returned by os.environ belongs to current user and which one - to all users? I do not want to change it, only get.

UPD: I am using Microsoft Windows 7.

What do you mean by "belongs"? How does an environment variable belong to a user or to all users? — user1907906
– user1907906, Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 9:13

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:14:00Z

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I don't think you can figure it out using standard Python means like os.environ. The only way to get user and system variables on Windows is to use registry, you can find more here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

System Variables

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

User variables

You need to access registry with Python to get them.

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rahul rachh · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-31 12:23:09Z

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you can get all the variables by

import os print(os.environ)

this will return you the dictionary type of output with keys as enviornment variables and values as the values of the enviornment variables.

to get the current username:

print(os.environ['USERNAME'])

Look for yourself what you want in the dictionary.

answered Jan 31, 2020 at 12:23

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