Environment in launched applications

Environment variables added by py2app

• RESOURCEPATH

  Filesystem path for the “Resources” folder inside the application bundle

System environment

When the application is launched normally (double clicking in the Finder, using the open(1) command) the application will be launched with a minimal shell environment, which does not pick up changes to the environment in the user’s shell profile.

The “emulate_shell_environment” option will run a login shell in the background to fetch exported environment variables and inject them into your application.

It is also possible to inject extra variables into the environment by using the LSEnvironment key in the Info.plist file, for example like so:

pyproject configuration for changing the app environment

[tool.py2app.bundle.main]
name = "BasicApp"
script = main.py
plist = {
   LSEnvironment = {
        LANG = "nl_NL.latin1",
        LC_CTYPE = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        EXTRA_VAR = "hello world",
        KNIGHT = "ni!",
   }
}