Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > >> 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.
Yes, plus a os.setenvb() function to pass the data back to the C level array. > But I think that Windows should continue to use unicode environment > variables. Should os.getenv(key, encoding=...) reencode the value on Windows? Good idea. That would make applications more easily portable between Windows and POSIX. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8514> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
