Message 104877 - Python tracker

Message104877

Author	lemburg
Recipients	Arfrever, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2010-05-03.20:27:26
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Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > > Can somebody please explain what problem is being solved with this patch? The way os.environ is currently set up on Unix breaks applications using the environment to pass data to helper applications. Please see the discussion on http://bugs.python.org/issue8514 for details.

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
> Can somebody please explain what problem is being solved with this patch?

The way os.environ is currently set up on Unix breaks applications
using the environment to pass data to helper applications.

Please see the discussion on http://bugs.python.org/issue8514
for details.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-03 20:27:28	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, loewis, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, vstinner, ezio.melotti, Arfrever
2010-05-03 20:27:26	lemburg	link	issue8603 messages
2010-05-03 20:27:26	lemburg	create