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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-04-29 12:57:32 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-04-29 12:57:32 (GMT)
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Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
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@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{datadesc}{environ}
-A mapping representing the string environment. For example,
-\code{environ['HOME']} is the pathname of your home directory,
-equivalent to \code{getenv("HOME")} in C.
+A mapping object representing the string environment. For example,
+\code{environ['HOME']} is the pathname of your home directory (on some
+platforms), and is equivalent to \code{getenv("HOME")} in C.
If the platform supports the \function{putenv()} function, this
mapping may be used to modify the environment as well as query the