Raymond Hettinger added the comment: [Antoine] > I agree with David that copy(os.environ) is rather ambiguous. > I think the preferred idiom should be to call dict(os.environ). > As for __copy__, I don't know what it should do: perhaps > simply raise an error when copying is attempted?
FWIW, I concur with Antoine on every point. Also, raising an error when copying seems reasonable ("refuse the temptation to guess" at what the user intended). ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15373> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com