New submission from Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lape...@henki.fr>:
The documentation states that "*key*, *default* and the result are str." at
https://github.com/python/cpython/blame/3.8/Doc/library/os.rst#L224 but either
I'm missing something or it's not actually true:
$ python -c 'import os; print(type(os.getenv("FOO")))'
<class 'NoneType'>
$ python -c 'import os; print(type(os.getenv("FOO", default=1)))'
<class 'int'>
Only *key* needs to be a string as it is used to lookup the value in os.environ.
I think this can be fixed by a new contributor
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 362689
nosy: docs@python, remi.lapeyre
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.getenv documentation is misleading
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9
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