Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Ezio Melotti wrote: > > Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > A quick search[0] also shows that environ.data is used by several projects. > Changing it from str to bytes will most likely break these programs, so I'm > not sure it's a good idea. > Also, if I understand correctly, on Windows os.environ.data still contains > str, so it's inconsistent with other systems. > IMHO os.environ.data should contain str, whereas os.environb.data bytes. If > they must share the same data I would prefer them to be both str. > > [0]: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython+environ.data&hl=en
Direct use of os.environ.data is not permitted as it is not a documented feature, so I wouldn't worry about this. The few uses you found are easy to fix. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8603> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
