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Message 104652 - Python tracker

> No, you store the environment data as bytes and only
> decode in getenv() ...

Yes, this is the best solution for POSIX. We need maybe also a os.getenvb()->bytes function, maybe only on POSIX.

But I think that Windows should continue to use unicode environment variables. Should os.getenv(key, encoding=...) reencode the value on Windows?