Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blon...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think an asdict() method is not necessary. Instanciating a dict from os.environ is enough:
>>> import os >>> os.environ environ({'SHELL': '/bin/bash', ...}) >>> dict(os.environ) {'SHELL': '/bin/bash', ...}) With 'dict()', it's obvious there is no side effect. I think os._Environ should not be pickable too because there is an ambiguity too when it will be unpicked: should we set the unpickled data to a basic dict (or another _Environ instance) or to the environment variables? It seems there are more maintainers in favour of the removal. Removing the copy is a breaking change so it should be done on several releases. Are you interested by a PR which adds DeprecationWarning when copy.copy(os.environ) or os.environ.copy() are called? It seems to be the first step to implement. ---------- nosy: +sblondon versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue15373> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com