From 0920810b016190624b245719ab4a8886b3664182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nabil Ghodbane <nabil.ghodbane@cea.fr>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:22:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add appendVariable method to SalomeContext

---
 bin/salomeContext.py | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/salomeContext.py b/bin/salomeContext.py
index 865b17557..605c9cd16 100755
--- a/bin/salomeContext.py
+++ b/bin/salomeContext.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ class SalomeContext:
       del os.environ[name]
   #
 
-  """Append value to environment variable"""
+  """Prepend value to environment variable"""
   def addToVariable(self, name, value, separator=os.pathsep):
     if value == '':
       return
@@ -213,6 +213,19 @@ class SalomeContext:
       os.environ[name] = value + separator + env
   #
 
+  """Append a variable"""
+  def appendVariable(self, name, value, separator=os.pathsep):
+    if value == '':
+      return
+
+    value = os.path.expandvars(value) # expand environment variables
+    env = os.getenv(name, None)
+    if env is None:
+      os.environ[name] = value
+    else:
+      os.environ[name] = env + separator + value
+    return
+
   ###################################
   # This begins the private section #
   ###################################
-- 
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