export command not working

[MSDuncan82]

The keep command does not appear to be changing CDPATH even though the exact same command run without keep seems to work:

(base) user:~$ echo $CDPATH
/home/mike
(base) user:~$ keep run set

 1	$ export CDPATH=.:~/Documents/programming_projects/ :: Set CDPATH to ~ and programming_projects

Execute
	$ export CDPATH=.:~/Documents/programming_projects/ :: Set CDPATH to ~ and programming_projects

? [Y/n]: y
(base) user:~$ echo $CDPATH
/home/mike
(base) user:~$ export CDPATH=.:~/Documents/programming_projects/
(base) user:~$ echo $CDPATH
.:/home/mike/Documents/programming_projects/

Any idea whats going on here?

[OrkoHunter]

Hi @MSDuncan82 !

I can see that keep runs a command using os.system command.

This Q&A on stackoverflow says that it is not possible to use the export command as it is from Python. So, perhaps keep should give out a warning that export command will not work from Python or there may be a workaround to it.