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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-05-06 22:05:07 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-05-06 22:05:07 (GMT)
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Issue #8603: Create a bytes version of os.environ for Unix
Create os.environb mapping and os.getenvb() function, os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of utf8/strict) and accepts bytes, and posix.environ keys and values are bytes.
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+- Issue #8603: Create a bytes version of os.environ for Unix: create
+ os.environb mapping and os.getenvb() function, os.unsetenv() encodes str
+ argument to the file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler
+ (instead of utf8/strict) and accepts bytes, and posix.environ keys and values
+ are bytes.
+
- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing