Message 104652 - Python tracker

Message104652

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, lemburg, loewis, vstinner
Date	2010-04-30.17:16:06
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Message-id	<1272647767.62.0.263893496115.issue8514@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> No, you store the environment data as bytes and only > decode in getenv() ... Yes, this is the best solution for POSIX. We need maybe also a os.getenvb()->bytes function, maybe only on POSIX. But I think that Windows should continue to use unicode environment variables. Should os.getenv(key, encoding=...) reencode the value on Windows?

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> No, you store the environment data as bytes and only
> decode in getenv() ...

Yes, this is the best solution for POSIX. We need maybe also a os.getenvb()->bytes function, maybe only on POSIX.

But I think that Windows should continue to use unicode environment variables. Should os.getenv(key, encoding=...) reencode the value on Windows?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-04-30 17:16:07	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, loewis, gregory.p.smith, ezio.melotti, Arfrever
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