ROOT ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH when imported in ipython

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I am seeing a strange behaviour difference when in import ROOT in python vs doing it in an ipython terminal. Specifically, I have some custom paths in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. If I open a python interactive session and do:

>>> import ROOT
>>> ROOT.gSystem.GetDynamicPath()

I see my paths listed. But if instead I open an ipython terminal and do:

In [1]: import ROOT
In [2]: ROOT.gSystem.GetDynamicPath()

My custom paths are missing!?

I cannot figure out why I would get a different behaviour of ROOT when I import it in python vs in ipython? Any idea?

This is 6.22/08 and python 3.9.5 on a mac, in case it is important info.

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Only thing I can think of: ipython comes from something like a conda environment or similar rather than the system, and decides to shield the environment from the outside env.

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hmmm. I installed ipython with brew, but yes it does seem for some reason that ipython wants to hide environment variables. E.g. if I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my environment, opening ipython and doing os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] fails, but it works and is correct in python.

So I guess this isn’t a ROOT-specific issue but frustratingly some googling hasn’t thrown up how to fix this ipython issue.

Thanks
Will