On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:19:44AM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote:

> Why does urllib test unset this variable? Is it related to an HTTP proxy?

It does that *temporarily* using EnvironVarGuard to see if the PROXY
related environment variables are correctly retrieved by a method.


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Senthil

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