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Author	loewis
Recipients	a.badger, loewis, vstinner
Date	2008-11-24.07:39:45
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Message-id	<492A5A40.7070903@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<1227510432.17.0.97541109132.issue4006@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > So what's the reason this is not a bug? It's a bug only if the implementation deviates from the specification. In this case, it does not. The behavior is intentional: python deliberately drops environment variables it cannot represent as a string. We know that such environment variables can happen in real life - that's why they get dropped (rather than raising an exception at startup).

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> So what's the reason this is not a bug?

It's a bug only if the implementation deviates from the specification.
In this case, it does not. The behavior is intentional: python
deliberately drops environment variables it cannot represent as a
string. We know that such environment variables can happen in real
life - that's why they get dropped (rather than raising an exception
at startup).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-11-24 07:39:46	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, vstinner, a.badger
2008-11-24 07:39:46	loewis	link	issue4006 messages
2008-11-24 07:39:46	loewis	create