On 6/7/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The os.environ.get() method probably should return a unicode string. (?) > > > > Indeed -- care to contribute a patch? > > Ideally, such a patch would make use of the Win32 Unicode API for > environment variables on Windows. People had already been complaining > that they can't have "funny characters" in the value of an environment > variable, even though the UI allows them to set the variable just fine.
Yeah, but the Windows build of py3k is currently badly broken (e.g. the _fileio.c extension probably doesn't work at all) -- and I don't have access to a Windows box to work on it. I'm afraid 3.0a1 will be released without Windows support. Of course I'm counting on others to fix that before 3.0 final is released. I don't mind for now that the posix.environ variable contains 8-bit strings -- people shouldn't be importing that anyway. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
