GetSystemEnvironment

Summary

Gets a specified system environment variable value, such as TEMP.

Discussion

When using the GetSystemEnvironment function to retrieve the TEMP environment variable's value, the function 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")