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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-10-24 20:16:56 (GMT)
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Indicate that os.environ may not be a real dictionary.
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Module \module{posix} defines the following data items:
\begin{datadesc}{environ}
-A dictionary representing the string environment at the time
-the interpreter was started.
+A dictionary or dictionary look-alike representing the string
+environment at the time the interpreter was started.
For example,
\code{posix.environ['HOME']}
is the pathname of your home directory, equivalent to