New submission from Eryk Sun: This suggestion may be controversial: os.putenv should decode bytes arguments as UTF-8, the new Windows filesystem encoding. Moreover, os.environb should also be implemented. This would be consistent with bytes support in os.spawnve and os.execve.
The controversial aspect, I think, is that this doesn't allow using arbitrary encodings for environment-variable names and values. The statement in the docs that os.environb allows one "to use a different encoding" than the filesystem encoding would have to be modified with a caveat that on wide-character platforms, such as Windows, using the filesystem encoding is mandatory. ---------- messages: 276797 nosy: eryksun priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: os.putenv should support bytes arguments on Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28188> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
