GetSystemEnvironment

Summary

Gets the specified system environment variable value, such as "TEMP".

Discussion

When using GetSystemEnvironment to retrieve the "TEMP" environment variable's value, GetSystemEnvironment will cycle through "TEMP", "TMP" and "MW_TMPDIR" environment variables and return the first value it finds.

Syntax

GetSystemEnvironment (environment)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
environment	The name of the system environment variable.	String

Return Value

Data Type	Explanation
String	Returns the value of the specified system environment variable as a string.

Code sample

GetSystemEnvironment example

Return the specified system environment variable value.

import arcpy

# Set the scratchWorkspace environment to the value returned
# from the system environment variable TEMP
arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace = arcpy.GetSystemEnvironment("TEMP")